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William Louis Beaufort was the son of the map-maker, diarist and Rector of Navan and Collon, the Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort. He was a pupil of Nicholas Pocock in Bristol and later in Dublin of a James George O'Brien. He has previously been confused with William Beauford (1735-1819) an amateur antiquarian draftsman, working in Dublin and who contributed to the Antiquities of Ireland, 1790.