Major Francis William Beech CBE (5 June 1885 – 21 February 1969) was a British military officer and politician, who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Woolwich West from 1943 to 1945.
Beech was educated at Long Ashton, outside Bristol, and then attended Lewis School, Pengam, in south Wales.
[1] In 1937 he was elected as one of two councillors for Woolwich West to the London County Council, as a Municipal Reform Party candidate, and remained in office for the next nine years.
In November 1943 he was also elected to the House of Commons for the same constituency, representing the Conservative Party; he succeeded Sir Kingsley Wood, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had died in office.
[1] After leaving the council, he served as Mayor of Woolwich from 1955 to 1956; he had previously been made a Freeman of the borough as well as of the City of London.