Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Following the correspondence in The Citizen recently re music in public places I sent this response this morning: Photo: Moss Barbara Gardiner's call for action against music and news in public places is to be welcomed (The Citizen letters 15/09/08). The Green Party peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley in 2006 introduced a Private Member’s Bill to ban piped music and televisions in public areas of
Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 19/04/2008
Tim Beaumont, Lord Beaumont of Whitley (above) died on 8th April. I only met him a couple of times - I remember a very pleasant conversation with him about his Bill to prohibit piped music and the showing of television programmes in the public areas of hospitals - and to require the wearing of headphones by persons listening to music in the public areas of hospitals - a move to curb noise pollution...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Obituary: Clergyman and Liberal Democrat peer who ultimately switched to the Green party
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Timothy Beaumont was the publisher of a string of radical religious magazines who became a prominent member of the Liberal Party, serving as chairman of the party, 1967-68, then president, 1969-70. Created a life peer in 1967, he went on to make parliamentary history in November 1999 when he crossed the floor of the House of Lords from the Lib Dems to become the first (and still the only) Green Party...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Lord Beaumont of Whitley, the only Green Party peer and a former Liberal Party chairman, dies at the age of 79.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Lord Beaumont of Whitley became the Green Party's only member of either House of Parliament in 1999 after spending most of his life and a good deal of his fortune helping the Liberal and then Liberal Democrat Party. In his long career he had alternated between the church and politics.
