Ardern George Hulme Beaman (1857–1929) was a British adventurer, author, diplomat and war correspondent.
Born in 1857 in Hoshangabad, India, where his father was an assistant surgeon in the Indian Medical Service,[1] Beaman was educated at Bedford School.
[citation needed] In December 1882, he observed the court-martial of Ahmed ‘Urabi on behalf of the British Government, and attached himself to Sir Henry Drummond Wolff and to Lord Dufferin in Egypt.
After defending prisoners before the Alexandria court-martial he joined the staff of the London Evening Standard in 1883, and became its correspondent in Egypt, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Turkey, and Austria-Hungary.
He was the London Evening Standard's Paris correspondent between 1907 and 1916, joining the Intelligence Staff of the general officer commanding British forces in Egypt between April 1916 and September 1921.