Charles Gabriel Beale

Biography

Beale lived at Maple Bank, Edgbaston, Birmingham and Bryntirion, Dolgelly, Wales. He was a member of Beale and Co. of London and Birmingham, solicitors to the Midland Railway, a director of the London City and Midland Bank, and chairman of the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, as Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1897, 1898 and 1899, and Sheriff of Merionethshire in 1907. In 1911 he was a member of the Railway Inquiry Commission. He died on 1 September 1912.