Background
She was born in 1890 into a farming family in Midsomer Norton in Somerset.
She was born in 1890 into a farming family in Midsomer Norton in Somerset.
Early Adult During the First World War, Beauchamp became active in the Number Conscription Fellowship (NCF). The NCF was established to help and give advice to the estimated 16,000 pacifists and socialists who refused to join the military and fight. In 1920 she received a ten-day prison sentence for her anti-war activities.
She was regarded as one of the suffragette movement"s most militant members.
She was one of the first women graduates of the University of London. They had two sons, Robin (born 1924), and Brian, both of whom became notable trade union lawyers.
Beauchamp went on to be a journalist in London. During the Second World War she received severe injuries from a German flying bomb.
She provided support to her husband"s law firm which caters only for trade unions and their members.
Beauchamp"s husband Harry Thompson died in 1947. She died in 1964.
Scientific socialism.
She was one of the founders and a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and an associate of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst.