Daniel Cornelius de Beaufort

He was the seventh child of Count Francis de Beaufort, court chancellor to the Prince of Lippe-Detmold[1] and his wife, Louise Mary Brazy.

[2] His brother, Louis de Beaufort (1703–1795), was a scholar who was one of the first to raise doubts about the credibility of early Roman history.

He was appointed to the living of St Martin Orgar in the City of London, where French Protestants then worshipped, and officiated at the Savoy Chapel.

[3] De Beaufort married Esther Gougeon whose sister Denise was the mother of Sir William Neville Hart.

In 1746, de Beaufort accompanied the Earl of Harrington to Ireland as chaplain and in 1747 he received the benefice of Navan, Meath.