[2] A few months before her first birthday, the Beaumonts settled at the Stapletons' ancestral home of Carlton Towers in Selby, Yorkshire.
He had been hunting alone with his dog and was climbing over a gate with his double-barrel shotgun in one hand when his gun discharged point blank through his face, killing him instantly.
It is disputed exactly when baronies created by writ (also known as baronies in fee, or by tenure, which could be inherited by women) were intended to become hereditary peerages; some authorities believed 1295, though a 1826 committee chaired by Lord Redesdale determined 1382 to be the year, but experts dissented, arguing that the evidence from 1382 was merely a reference to an already established practise.
His brothers and sisters were all granted the rank, style and precedence of children of a duke (as if their father had lived to succeed as duke himself): In the 1946 New Year Honours, Lady Beaumont was appointed OBE[10] for her services during World War II to the British Red Cross at York Military Hospital, Goole.
On her death in 1971 at the age of 77, her title passed to her eldest son, Miles, who inherited the dukedom of Norfolk from his father's cousin in 1975 and added his mother's maiden name to his own.