Charles Gabriel Beale

Charles Gabriel Beale JP (10 May 1843 – 1 September 1912), third son of William John Beale, was an English solicitor, politician and ornithologist, and was four times Lord Mayor of Birmingham.

Beale lived at Maple Bank, Edgbaston, Birmingham and Bryntirion, Dolgelly, Wales.

He was a member of Beale and Co. of London and Birmingham, solicitors to the Midland Railway, a director of the London City and Midland Bank, and chairman of the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company.

He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, and as Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1897, 1898 and 1899, returning to the post in 1905 following the sudden death of the incumbent, Rowland Hill Berkeley.

In 1911 he was appointed a member of the Railway Inquiry Commission.