Education
Trinity College.
geographer provost Anglican priest
Trinity College.
He was rector of Navan, County Meath, Ireland, from 1765 to 1818. Taking his family with him to accompany Lord Harrington to Ireland, the father became rector of Navan in 1747. He was provost and archdeacon of Tuam from 1753 to 1758.
He was rector of Clonenagh from 1758 until his death thirty years later.
In 1788, he published in English, A Short Account of the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome, divested of all Controversy. Daniel Augustus was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was elected a scholar in 1757.
He became Bachelor of Arts in 1759, Master of Arts in 1764, and Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) in 1789. He was ordained by the Bishop of Salisbury, and, in succession to his father, was rector of Navan, company
Meath, from 1765 to 1818.
In 1790 he was presented by the Right Honorary John Foster to the vicarage of Collon, company Louth. He afterwards built the church at Collon, where he remained until his death in 1821.
He was successively collated to the prebendal stalls of Kilconnell, in the diocese of Clonfert, (3 October 1818), and of Mayne, in the diocese of Ossory (20 April 1820).
Beaufort took a prominent part in the foundation of Sunday schools, and in the preparation of elementary educational works. He helped found the Royal Irish Academy.
His most important work was his map of Ireland, published in 1792. He accompanied it by a memoir of the civil and ecclesiastical state of the country.
All the places marked on the map are systematically indexed in the memoir and assigned to their respective parishes, baronies, et cetera
In the preface, the author stated his map was prepared from original observations to remedy the defects of existing maps of Ireland. Competent authorities pronounced it and the memoir to be valuable contributions to geography. The publication of this work was encouraged by the Marquis of Buckingham, lord-lieutenant of Ireland.
Beaufort married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of William Waller, of Allenstown, County Meath.
Their elder son, William Louis Beaufort (1771–1849), was rector of Glanmire, and prebendary of Rathcooney, Cork, from 1814 until his death in 1849. Their younger son was Francis Beaufort, who joined the Royal Navy and became Hydrographer.
He received the Order of the Bath. Daughter Frances Ann Beaufort was the fourth wife of Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
Her step-daughter Honora married Frances" brother Sir Francis Beaufort.