Background
Beauchamp, William Benjamin was born on March 16, 1869 in Farnham, Virginia, United States. Son of Dandridge C. and Margaret Beauchamp.
Beauchamp, William Benjamin was born on March 16, 1869 in Farnham, Virginia, United States. Son of Dandridge C. and Margaret Beauchamp.
Bachelor of Arts, Randolph-Macon College, 1890, Doctor of Divinity, 1906. A.M., Bachelor of Divinity, Vanderbilt University, 1893. Doctor of Laws, Southern University Lakeland, Florida, 1926.
Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1893. Pastor Broad St. and St. James, Richmond, Virginia, 1891-1903, Newport News, 1903-1907, Fourth Avenue Church, Louisville, Kentucky, 1907-1911, Danville, Virginia, 1911-1915, Monumental Church, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1915-1917. General secretary Laymen’s Missionary Movement Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1917-1922.
Elected bishop, May 1922. Bishop in charge 12th Episcopal District comprising Missions in Europe, 1922-1926, now Georgia and Mexico.
Member World’s Missionary Conference, Edinburg, Scotland, 1906. Member Board Missions Methodist Episcopal Church, South (president, 1926). Member 5th Ecumenical Conference, London, 1921.
Member Executive Committee Federal Council of Churches in America. Member American section commission on arrangements for Universal Conference Churches of Christ on Life and Work. President board of trustees Scarritt Bible Training School, Nashville, Tennessee.
Member theological faculty Emory University, since 1926. Member American section International Council of Missions, Jerusalem, March 1928.
Married Blanche Whitehurst, 1895. Children: Ann Dorothy, Margaret, William B., Luke Granberry, Virginia, Harriet Gaulbert, Elisabeth, Bayard.