Beaufort (surname)

Beaufort (surname)

Beaufort is the name of a noble family of 14th and 15th-century England, descended from John of Gaunt. For a list of individual Beauforts, see Beaufort family.

Beaufort is also the surname of:
* Carel Godin de Beaufort, Porsche Formula 1 Driver 1957 - 1964
* Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), Irish hydrographer and naval officer, creator of the Beaufort scale, namesake of the Beaufort Sea.

ee also

* Duke of Beaufort, a dukedom in the Peerage of England
* Duc de Beaufort, a title in French nobility


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