Octavius Charles Beale (23 February 1850 – 16 December 1930) was an Irish-born Australian piano manufacturer and a philanthropist.
[4] In 1903, Beale was appointed one of twelve members of a Royal Commission into the decline of the birth rate in New South Wales.
He later conducted, at his own expense, a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Secret Drugs, 1905-1910.
The two-volume report records the criminal unscrupulousness of manufacturers and advertisers.
Beale married Elizabeth (Lilly) Baily (1856 – 1901) at the Congregational Church, Woollahra, New South Wales, and they had twelve children.