A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Beales, Edmond
Admitted 5 February, 1824
Youngest son of Samuel Pickering Beales, merchant, of Cambridge, where he was born. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship. He was called to the Bar 25 June, 1830. He took an ardent interest in foreign politics, and first brought himself into notice during the visit of Garibaldi to England in 1864, as an asserter of the unlimited right of public meeting.
In the following year he became President of the Reform League, with which his name has since been identified as the organizer of the vast public meetings held under its auspices in support of Earl Russell's Reform Bill in 1866. He resigned the presidency in March, 1869. From 1862 to 1866 Mr. Beales was a Revising Barrister, and in 1870 was appointed a Judge of the County Court in Hunts and Cambridge. He died 26 June, 1881. He published several pamphlets, chiefly on Parliamentary Reform and the wrongs of oppressed nationalities.