Robert Beaumont

Robert Beaumont may refer to:

  • Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (1049–1118), English and French nobleman
  • Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104–1168), Justiciar of England, 1155–1168
  • Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester (died 1190), English nobleman
  • Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester (died 1204), English nobleman
  • Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan (c. 1142–1207)
  • Robert Beaumont (Master of Trinity College) (died 1567)
  • Sir Robert Beaumont, character in the film The Ghost and the Darkness

Famous quotes containing the words robert and/or beaumont:

    “Of the wheel as it rolls unrelentingly over
    A cow plodding through car-traffic on a street in Iasi,
    And over the haunts of Robert Pinsky’s mother and father
    And wife and children and his sweet self”
    —Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)

    “Know from this the world’s a snare,
    How that greatness is but care,
    How all pleasures are but pain,
    And how short they do remain:”
    —Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)