Bellamy Aubrey-Beecham

Bellamy Aubrey-Beecham is the head of the Aubrey-Beecham family. He appears in the Weekend at Grandfather's.

 The Aubrey-Beechams have been steadily gaining in wealth and status for four generations, and can now claim to be something of a patrician family; although their fortune still comes from trade rather than land, it is quite considerable, and Bellamy was able to marry Rosa, the granddaughter of the Hon. Ishmael Allanshaw , admittedly a very minor aristocrat, but still enough of an aristocrat to allow the family into the very best society. Since that time, Bellamy has been seeking to establish himself as a real gentleman, acquiring a large country house and building an estate around it which he feels worthy of his position. The recent death of the ancient Ishmael Allanshaw has given him and his wife a windfall of new land and properties, including the Lickleyhead estate.

 As well as managing his company and properties, Bellamy has served as an MP for his Nottinghamshire constituency. He was a Peelite, and joined the mass defection to the Liberals during the fight over the Corn Laws. After the coalition fell apart thanks to the Orsini Affair and the Crimean War, he decided not to run again, preferring to devote his time and energy to his businesses, his family, and philanthropic works, most notably in seeking to limit child labour and in the founding and funding of new ragged schools in the Midlands’ factory towns.

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