Сарк ақсүйегінің 22-ші иесі Джон Майкл Бомонт

22nd seigneur of Sark

Seigneur John Michael Beaumont (20 December 1927 – 3 July 2016) was the twenty second Seigneur of Sark in the Channel Islands. He worked as a civil engineer before succeeding his paternal grandmother, Sibyl Hathaway, the 21st Dame of Sark, in 1974. During his rule, Beaumont saw the loss of many feudal rights enjoyed by the seigneurs, and he was consequently often described as the "last feudal baron".

Beaumont was the son of the Royal Air Force officer and film producer Francis William Beaumont and his first wife, Enid Ripley. His paternal grandmother, Sibyl Hathaway, ascended as the Dame of Sark six months before his birth. Francis and Enid divorced in 1937 as a result of his adultery with an actress, Mary Lawson, whom he subsequently married. Beaumont's father and stepmother were killed on 4 May 1941, during the Liverpool Blitz, which left the 14 year old Beaumont as heir to his grandmother. Beaumont worked as a structural design engineer for the British Aircraft Corporation in Bristol before moving to Shoreham by Sea, where he worked on Beagle Aircraft. In 1956, Beaumont married Diana La Trobe Bateman, and the couple had two sons, Christopher and Anthony.

In 1974, Beaumont's grandmother died and he succeeded her as Seigneur of Sark. The new seigneur swore fealty to Queen Elizabeth in 1978, when she and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the island for the first time since his accession. During her 2001 visit, the Queen made the seigneur an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, Sark experienced a major change in the system of government. Beaumont remained the overlord of the island, but lost some of his feudal privileges. He did retain the privilege of being the only person on the island with the right to keep pigeons and an unspayed dog.