George Beaumont (minister)
George Beaumont (fl. 1800–1830) was a British nonconformist minister and controversialist of the Ebenezer Chapel, Norwich. He is known as an early pacifist writer. Background. According to an 1836 gazetteer, the Ebenezer Chapel in Norwich's Ber-Street was originally a Baptist meeting-house, and then was used by the Methodist New Connexion. George Beaumont represented Norwich at the New Connexion conferences of 1813 and 1814. When Beaumont wrote "The warrior's looking glass" of 1808, British pacifists, outside of the Society of Friends, were isolated. An article in the "Monthly Repository" in 1809, taking a cue  from the recent abolition of the slave trade of 1807, and Thomas Clarkson's 1808 book on it, speculated on the abolition of war (attribution by Ceadel of a letter from "J. H." is to John Holland (1766–1826)). Also in 1809, in the "Monthly Magazine", "H. W." (Henry Wansey, of Unitarian views) called for a peace association. David Bogue's "first clear call to form an organization on a pacifist basis" came in 1813. Beaumont was a subscriber to the Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace in 1817.