Sir Frauds Beaufort, an English hydrogra-pher, born at Collon, county Lowth, Ireland, in 1774, died in Brighton, Dec. 17, 1857. He was the son of a clergyman of French extraction; entered the navy in 1787; served as midshipman under Admiral Cornwallis; was under Howe in the naval battle off Brest, June 1,1794; became lieutenant in 1796, and commodore in 1800, in reward for his services at the battle off Malaga, where he was wounded. He acquired scientific reputation by his hydrographic labors on the coast of Asia Minor in 1811 - '12, and published "Karamania, or a Brief Description of the South Coast of Asia Minor and of the Remains of Antiquity" (London, 1817), which has proved very useful to later explorers. Wounded in a conflict with Turkish pirates in 1812, while on his way to Syria, he was obliged to return to England, where subsequently he drew up many maps, and was hy-drographer of the admiralty from 1832 to 1855. Geographical and maritime explorations were greatly promoted by his labors, and he was a prominent fellow of the royal society, and member of the astronomical and geographical societies, and a commissioner of the pilot service.

He became honorary rear admiral in 1846, and was knighted in 1848.