Sir Francis Beaufort ( BOH-fərt; 27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale. == Early life == Francis Beaufort was descended from French Protestant Huguenots, who fled the French Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century.
Sir Francis Beaufort ( BOH-fərt; 27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer and naval officer who created the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale. == Early life == Francis Beaufort was descended from French Protestant Huguenots, who fled the French Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century.
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