Wentworth Hubert Charles Beaumont, 3rd Viscount Allendale (12 September 1922 – 27 December 2002) was a British peer, Royal Air Force officer and race horse breeder.
[1] He spent his earlier years living at the family seat of Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire.
[2] He was an accident prone child and had a number of near-death experiences: he was rescued from a house fire in 1927, was electrocuted and left temporarily paralysed when a lamp fell in his bath when aged 14, and at 15 shot himself while pigeon shooting with friends.
[2] Allendale joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) in 1940 after he had completed his schooling.
[1][3] Having injured his leg in the crash, he was taken captive and transported to Stalag Luft III, a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.