Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower in his sixties, his relationship with his sister, always close, became incestuous for three years, until he married again, to his step-niece. Died Brighton.
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Sir Francis Beaufort
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Sir Beaufort
London County Council Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774 - 1857, Admiral and hydrogr...
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Albert Reginald Twyford
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F. C. Stratford
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