include fashion designers Sally Brown, Linda Jackson, Pru Acton and Geoff Bade; architect and historian Mary Turner Shaw; graphic designers Frank Eidlitz and Brian Sadgrove; flag designer and canvas goods manufacturer Ivor William Evans (1887–1960); journalist and nature writer Donald Alaster Macdonald (1859?–1932) whose memorial is in Donald MacDonald reserve, and whose ideas were continued in 1953 when the Beaumaris Tree Preservation Society (now Beaumaris Conservation Society) was formed to conserve bushland against accelerating land clearances for housing and to encourage planting of indigenous vegetation. Musicians include Colin Hay, and Brett and Sally Iggulden (children of Bill Iggulden who designed the Series K Planet Lamp in 1962) who were founders and members, with others from the district, of The Red Onion Jazz Band in the 1960s. Notable residents Christine Abrahams, director of eponymous gallery in Richmond lived at 372 Beach Road, designed in 1961 by noted Melbourne architect Arthur Russell, and next door to a block owned by Arthur Boyd Pru Acton, fashion designer Effie Baker, photographer and advocate of the Baha’i faith Clarice Beckett lived with her parents at St. Enoch's, 14 Dalgetty Road and painted many landscapes of Beaumaris. Ivor Treharne Birtwistle, journalist Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, artists Ivor William Evans, flag designer and canvas goods manufacturer Sir William Fry, politician Leonard French, artist Hal Gye, artist William John Harris, school principal and palaeontologist Colin Hay, musician, actor Rex Hunt, television personality Linda Jackson, fashion designer Hugh Gemmell Lamb-Smith, Australian educator who landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, and son of former President of the Moorabbin Shire Council, was born at Mrs Ricketts' Dinas Bran, in Wells Road, Beaumaris (then part of "Cheltenham") on 31 March 1889. Donald Alaster Macdonald, naturalist and journalist Photojournalist J. Brian McArdle, editor of Walkabout magazine. Michael O'Connell, artist Owen Phillips, army general Bruce Ruxton, president of the Victorian branch of the RSL Brian Sadgrove, designer Mollie Shaw, architect and historian Len Stretton, judge and Royal Commissioner Saxil Tuxen, surveyor and town planner Demographics At the 2021 Australian census, the suburb of Beaumaris recorded a population of 13,947 people. Of these 48.0% were male and 52.0% were female. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.2% of the population: Age distribution: Residents tend to be somewhat older than the country overall. The median age was 48 years, compared to the national median of 38 years. In Beaumaris in 2021 compared