Beaumont was a staff writer for the Daily Mail[2] and eventually became editor of the Bystander in 1903[3][4] and then The Graphic in 1932.
[5] Beaumont's astronomical speculations were later mirrored by Immanuel Velikovsky's works.
Beaumont accepted the existence of giants based on British folklore, and argued other mythological creatures were actually real.
[6] In Facts and Fallacies (1988) published by Reader's Digest, Beaumont's views are summarized: In a series of books published between 1946 and 1949, British journalist William Comyns Beaumont astonished the world with the following extraordinary revelations: Jesus of Nazareth had been crucified just outside Edinburgh, Scotland — the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem.
Ancient Athens was in reality Bath, England ... Comyns Beaumont started his radical revision of history with the belief, innocuous enough, that the lost island of Atlantis might be Britain.He was also a proponent of the Shakespeare authorship question, arguing Shakespeare's plays were written by Francis Bacon.