Nationality Sark Known for Seigneur of Sark | Occupation Army officer | |
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Christopher Beaumont is the present Seigneur of Sark in the Channel Islands and a major. He is 59 years old.
He succeeded as Seigneur on 3 July 2016, when his father Michael Beaumont died.
On July 5, 2016, the Sark Newspaper published an article that listed reasons Sark residents should have doubts about what the Seigneury of the 23rd Seigneur held in store for them.
The Sark Newspaper reported Sark residents could not know whether Beaumont would re-occupy the Seigneury, the traditional residence of the Seigneur, even though it is a matter of public record that the elderly former Seigneur had moved out as it was unsuited to someone in frail health, and he and his wife had moved to a cottage better suited to their continued care.
In an interview with the BBC, on July 15, 2016, Beaumont defended the Sark Political structure. He defended the Island's legislature, the Chief Pleas, saying: "There's a perfectly good, working Chief Pleas and it gets my full support." Constitutional reforms, in 2008, which had the approval of his father the 22nd Seigneur, devolved some of the feudal authority from the Seigneur to the legislature.
In 2009, after ill-health triggered Christopher's parents to move from the Seigneurie, a building with 17 staircases, to a smaller cottage on the estate, better suited to aging residents, they arranged for David Synnott and his wife to live in the Seigneurie, for ten years, in return for making key renovations.
Christopher did return to the Island after his father's death.