Mark Hanbury Beaufoy JP (21 September 1854 – 10 November 1922) was an English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament.
The object of the new organisation was "to rescue and care for children who are orphaned, homeless, cruelly treated or in moral danger, and to relieve over-burdened homes".
[14] Throughout the English-speaking world, shooting people are familiar with Beaufoy's verses on gun safety called A Father's Advice.
Gun-makers began to send A Father's Advice out with their cartridges, and a gamekeeper offered the verses to a Sussex magazine, claiming to have written them.
It was sometimes said they were by an officer killed in the Boer war, and in a letter to The Sporting Times they were attributed to the Reverend J. L. Browne, an Eastbourne headmaster.
Browne replied to say they were not his, and in November 1910 Beaufoy himself wrote in to say he was the author, adding "Perhaps they have not been wholly useless – if so, I am amply rewarded".
[4] They had one daughter, Margaret Hilda (born 1885) and three sons, Henry Mark (1887), George Maurice (1893), and Robert Harvey (1895).
[18] The youngest son, Robert, lost his left arm during the First World War, but continued with his shooting, going on to become a good one-armed shot.
The middle son, George Maurice Beaufoy, was killed on 10 May 1941 when a bomb fell on the family vinegar yard in Lambeth during the Second World War.