William Beamont was a Victorian solicitor and local philanthropist, living in the town of Warrington, in the north-west of England.
He founded Warrington's municipal library, the first rate-aided library in the UK, in 1848. His diaries, stored in the library, are a valuable source of social history.
His grave lies in the churchyard of Christ Church, Padgate, one of several Church of England churches that he helped found.
