William John Beamont

William John Beamont (1828–1868) was an English clergyman, founder of the Cambridge School of Art, current Anglia Ruskin University, and author.

[1] After his election as fellow of Trinity he commenced a tour in Egypt and Palestine, and on being ordained in 1854 he spent some time at Jerusalem, where he engaged earnestly in the education of intending missionaries to Abyssinia, in Sunday school work, and in preaching not only to the English residents but to the Arabs in their own tongue.

He afterwards acted as chaplain in the camp hospitals of the British Army before Sevastopol, Russia next to the Black Sea during the Crimean War.

[2] In 1855 Beamont returned home, and became curate of St. John's, Broad Street, Drury Lane, London, in which parish he worked with great zeal until 1858, when he accepted the vicarage of St. Michael's, Cambridge.

In conjunction with Canon W. M. Campion he wrote a learned yet popular exposition of the Book of Common Prayer, entitled The Prayer-Book Interleaved, 1868.