John Beaumont (c. 1636 – 3 July 1701) was an English soldier at the time of the Glorious Revolution and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1685 and 1695.
He was educated at school at Market Bosworth and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge aged 17 on 3 November 1653.
[1] He attended King Charles II in exile and was commissioned a captain in Our Holland Regiment, becoming lieutenant-colonel by 1685.
[2][4] Beaumont joined William of Orange at Torbay and on 31 December 1688 and was rewarded with promotion to colonel of the regiment.
The regiment remained stationed in Ireland in 1691, taking part in the second siege of Limerick; it returned to England in February 1692.