North Ludlow Beamish

North Ludlow Beamish (31 December 1797 – 27 April 1872), was an Irish military writer and antiquary.

He was the son of merchant and landowner William Beamish, Esq., of Beaumont House, County Cork.[1] William Beamish was an owner of Beamish and Crawford, one of the largest Irish breweries.

In November 1816, he obtained a commission in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, in which corps he purchased a troop in 1823.[1] In 1825 he published an English translation of a small cavalry manual written by Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, a distinguished officer then engaged in the reorganisation of the Württemberg cavalry. Beamish's professional abilities brought him to notice, and he received a half-pay majority in the following year. Whilst attached to the vice-regal suite in Hanover he subsequently published a translation of Count von Bismarck's Lectures on Cavalry, with original notes, in which he suggested various changes soon after adopted in the British cavalry. He also completed and edited a history of the King's German Legion from its formation in the British service in 1803 to its disbandment in 1816, which was published in England in 1834–7.[1]

After quitting Hanover, Beamish devoted much attention to Norse antiquities, and in 1841 published a summary of the researches of Professor Carl Christian Rafn, relative to the discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century.[1] Beamish, like his younger brother, Richard, who was at one time in the Grenadier guards, was a Fellow of the Royal Society and an associate of several other bodies.[1]

He died at Annmount, County Cork, on 27 April 1872.[1]