For details of his life see W. H. Kelliher in the Oxford Dictionary National Biography and the sources there given and, with special reference to Peterhouse and to Beaumont's scholarship, his religious orthodoxy and the tenor of his lectures, Scott Mandelbrote in 'The Peterhouse Annual Record', 1999/2000, pp. 13-19. The biographical preface to the posthumous second edition of Beaumont's 'Psyche' (1702) is also informative.