Interview with Judge Herbert Christopher Beaumont MBE [sound recording]

Tape recording of interview, given 1984, by Herbert Christopher Beaumont (b 1912), on his career in the Indian Civil Service, Punjab 1936-44 and in the Indian Political Service 1944-47

Herbert Christopher Beaumont - Served in Indian Civil and Political Services 1936-48; 1936-1944 district officer, the Punjab and Tripura; 1939-1940 commandant, Border Military Police, Dera Ghazi Khan; 1944 political liason officer, Agartala, Tripura State; 1947 private secretary to Lord Radcliffe, chairman of the Indo-Pakistan Boundary Commission; 1948-1952 the Foreign Office, posted to Vienna; 1951 called to the bar, Inner Temple; 1962-1972 Metropolitan stipendiary magistrate; 1964 chairman, London Juvenile Courts; 1966-1971 deputy chairman, North Riding Quarter Sessions; 1972 appointed circuit judge; 1974-1976 member of the parole board; 1985 retired from the bench; 1986 temporary resident judge, Cyprus; 1988-1996 chairman, Police (Disciplinary) Appeal Tribunal.

Sound recording currently unavailable at SOAS Library due to preservation reasons. Researchers can access a copy of this audio recording at the British Library Listening & Viewing Service. For more details see www.bl.uk/listening or contact listening@bl.uk / 020 7412 7418.

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Recorded as part of the ’Memories of the British in India’ project by India Office Library & Records [subsequently the Oriental and India Office Collection, British Library]. This recording was previously held at SOAS Library as part of the 'British in India Oral Archive Project' collection [Reference OA2], removed from this collection in August 2014 to reflect the recording’s alternative provenance as part of the ‘Memories of the British in India’ project.

Original sound recording of interview available at British Library Listening & Viewing Service [Reference: C63/89-93 C1]