His father, also involved in coalmines, was William Beauchamp, and his sister Rose was the sister-in-law of the composer and music administrator Sir Reginald Thatcher.
[2] In 1897 he married Mabel Constance Bannon whose photographic portrait is part of the Lafayette Negative Archive at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
In May 1915 he joined the army and after eighteen months in Britain he went to the US in an advisory capacity to the War Department in Washington D.C.
[4] He lived at Woodborough House, a now-demolished mansion between Peasedown St John and Radstock, Somerset.
[4] Due to ill health he spent his final years in Worthing, West Sussex, where he died on 17 June 1950.