Rev Thomas Archer Bewes

Rev. Thomas Archer Bewes was the second son of Thomas Bewes of Beaumont,Plymouth. He was born on April 17 1803, and educated at Westminster School and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took his M.A. with honours. He was ordained Deacon in 1826 and was appointed Curate at Duloe near Liskeard, for which parish he subsequently became Lord of the Manor. His elder brother Harry Bewes having died unmarried in 1849, he succeeded to the Bewes family entail;ed estates on the death of his father in 1857. After leaving Duloe, he worked in the parish of Tolland. On his father's death in 1857, he took up residence at Beaumont House, Plymouth. He contributed large sums to the restoration of Duloe and Charles (Plymouth), and many other churches, and in addition to the sum of £3,000 which he subscribed towards the building of St Jude's Church and tower, gave the organ, which is one of the finest in Plymouth. He was a generous benefactor to countless good causes in the Plymouth area. He held the Bewes family entailed estates, consisting mainly of properties in Plymouth, Torquay, Paignton, Exeter and Cornwall.

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 123