Charles Gabriel Beale
Charles Gabriel Beale JP, third son of William John Beale, was four times Lord Mayor of Birmingham.Biography
Beale lived at Maple Bank, Edgbaston, Birmingham and Bryntirion, Dolgelly, Wales. He was a member of Beale and Co. of London and Birmingham, solicitors to the Midland Railway, a director of the London City and Midland Bank, and chairman of the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, as Lord Mayor of Birmingham in 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1905, and Sheriff of Merionethshire in 1907. In 1911 he was appointed a member of the Railway Inquiry Commission. He died on 1 September 1912.Family
Beale married Alice Kenrick, daughter of Timothy Kenrick and Maria Paget, on 7 August 1868. They had four children, Hubert Kenrick, Edith Mary, Edmund Phipson and Norah who married Wilfred Byng Kenrick.
