 He had already been created a baronet, of Cole Orton in the County of Leicester, in the Baronetage of England on 17 September 1619.The titles became extinct on the death of his grandson, the third Viscount in 1702.The first Viscount was the son of Sir Henry Beaumont, Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in 1589, son of Nicholas Beaumont, MP for Leicestershire in the reign of Elizabeth I and a descendant of John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont (see Baron Beaumont for earlier history of the family).