Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Frederic Boase

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СКАЧАТЬ of the League; director of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, vice pres., pres. 1845–59; one of Royal comrs. of Great Exhibition 1851; M.P. for Manchester 17 Nov. 1858 to 24 March 1880; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869. d. Riversleigh Lytham, Lancs. 18 March 1885. I.L.N. xix, 487, 508, 523 (1851), portrait; Touchstone 19 April 1879, portrait.

      BEACH, Sir Michael Hicks, 8 Baronet, b. Netheravon house, Wilts 25 Oct. 1809; succeeded 23 Oct. 1834; lieut. col. of North Gloucester militia 10 Feb. 1844 to death; M.P. for East Gloucs. 9 Jany. 1854 to death. d. Williamstrip park, Gloucs. 29 Nov. 1854.

      BEACH, William. b. 24 July 1783; M.P. for Malmesbury 13 Oct. 1812 to Feb. 1817. d. Oakley hall near Basingstoke 22 Nov. 1856.

      BEACONSFIELD, Benjamin Disraeli, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Isaac Disraeli of London 1766–1848). b. London 21 Dec. 1804; baptised in parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn 31 July 1817; articled to Wm. Stevens of 6 Frederick’s place Old Jewry, solicitor 10 Nov. 1821; student of Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov. 1824 to 25 Nov. 1831; M.P. for Maidstone 1837–1841, for Shrewsbury 1841–1847 and for Bucks. 1847–1876; chancellor of the exchequer Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Feb. 1868; P.C. March 1852; introduced and carried Representation of the people act 1867; first lord of the Treasury 29 Feb. 1868 to 2 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to 27 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow University 1871–1875, installed 19 Nov. 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1876; lord privy seal 12 Aug. 1876 to Feb. 1878; created Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Manor, Bucks. 21 Aug. 1876; first British plenipotentiary at Berlin congress 13 June to 13 July 1878; K.G. 22 July 1878; admitted to freedom of City of London 3 Aug. 1878; author of Vivian Grey 4 vols. 1827; The young duke 3 vols. 1831; Alroy 3 vols. 1833; Contarini Fleming 1833; The Revolutionary Epick, a poem 1834; Henrietta Temple 3 vols. 1836; Venetia 3 vols. 1837; Alarcos a tragedy 1839 which was produced on the stage at Astley’s; Coningsby or the new generation 3 vols. 1844; Sybil or the two nations 3 vols. 1845; Tancred or the new crusade 3 vols. 1847; Political biography of Lord George Bentinck 1851; Lothair 3 vols. 1870; Endymion 3 vols. 1880. d. 19 Curzon st. Mayfair London 19 April 1881. bur. Hughenden churchyard 26 April. Maclise Portrait gallery by W. Bates (1883) 164–72, portrait; Lord Beaconsfield, a biography by T. P. O’Connor, 6 ed. 1884; The public life of Lord Beaconsfield by F. Hitchman, 3 ed. 1884; An appreciative life of Lord Beaconsfield, edited by C. Brown, 2 vols. 1882, portrait.

      Note.—He is the hero of ‘Vivian Grey’ the first edition of which novel has whole chapters not found in subsequent editions; he figures almost by name in Lady Bulwer Lytton’s novel “Behind the Scenes” 3 vols. 1854. His statue in Parliament sq. was unveiled 19 April 1883, Primrose day.

      BEACONSFIELD, Mary Anne Disraeli, Viscountess (only dau. of John Viney Evans, Captain R.N. of Branceford park, Devon). b. 1795. (m. (1) 1811 Wyndham Lewis, M.P. for Maidstone who d. 14 March 1838, m. (2) 28 Aug. 1839 Benjamin Disraeli, 1 Earl of Beaconsfield). Created Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield 30 Nov. 1868. d. Hughenden, Bucks 15 Dec. 1872. Heath’s Book of beauty 1841 p. 236, portrait.

      BEADON, Sir Cecil (youngest son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April 1858 aged 76). b. Wells 1816; ed. at Eton and Shrewsbury; under secretary to government of Bengal 1843 and secretary 1852; secretary to government of India home department 1854 and foreign department 1859; member of Governor general’s council 1860; lieutenant governor of Bengal 1862–1866; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. d. Latton, Wilts 18 July 1880. Fortnightly Review viii, 180–91 (1867).

      BEADON, Rev. Frederick (3 son of Rev. Edward Beadon, R. of North Stoneham, Hants who d. 17 Dec. 1810). b. London 6 Dec. 1777; ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804; R. of Weston-super-Mare 1801–11; preb. of Wells cathedral 26 May 1809, canon residentiary 1812–1875 and chancellor 13 Aug. 1823 to death; V. of Titley near Hereford 1811–1876; R. of Sulham, Berks 1814–1823; R. of North Stoneham Jany. 1811 to death. d. North Stoneham rectory 10 June 1879 aged 101 years and 6 months. Norman’s Memoir privately printed 1879; Graphic xx, 108 (1879), portrait.

      BEADON, William Frederick (eld. son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April 1858). b. 1808; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; police magistrate at Wandsworth and Hammersmith 1847, and at Marlborough st. police court 1856 to death. d. Stratford place, Cavendish sq. 30 March 1862.

      BEAGLEY, Thomas. b. Farringdon near Alton, Hants 5 Oct. 1789; a builder there to Nov. 1850; professional cricketer; a splendid bat and long-stop; played for his county many years. d. 27 Alfred road, Harrow road, London 21 Feb. 1858.

      BEAL, Abraham. b. Chatham about 1803; a great advocate of total abstinence; acquired title of “the Prisoner’s friend”; emigrated to the United States 1848; general agent of New York prison association 1863 to death; more than 10000 prisoners were released or pardoned through his active agency. d. Brooklyn New York 25 Feb. 1872. American Annual Cyclopædia xii, 59–60 (1873).

      BEAL, Rev. William. b. Devonport 4 May 1785; Wesleyan minister 1808 to death; at Liskeard, Cornwall 1857 to death; the first Sunday school teacher in Cornwall; author of The fathers of the Wesley family and references to their times 1833, 2 ed. 1862; Britain and the Gael 1855 2 ed. 1860. d. Liskeard 18 June 1872.

      BEAL, Rev. William (eld. son of the preceding). b. Sheffield 9 Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, LLD. Aberdeen 1845, F.S.A. 1850; head master of Tavistock gr. sch. 1837–47; V. of Brooke Norfolk 1847 to death; originated at Brooke the Parochial harvest home 1854; diocesan inspector of schools 1855 to death; edited the West of England magazine 1840–47; author of First book in chronology 1840; Church Unions 1848; Peoples Colleges 1851. d. Aigle, canton Vaud Switzerland 20 April 1870.

      BEALE, Lionel John. b. Falmouth Oct. 1796; M.R.C.S. 1815; practised in London about 1831 to death; medical officer of health to parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1856 to death; author of On spinal diseases 1830; The laws of health in relation to mind and body 1851; Health and longevity 1854; On personal and domestic hygiene 1855. d. 108 Long Acre London 23 June 1871. Medical Times and gazette ii, 24 (1871).

      BEALE, Samuel (son of William Beale of Camphill, Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1803; an iron master; M.P. for Derby 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865; chairman of Midland railway 1858–1864. d. Warfield grove, Bracknell Berkshire 11 Sep. 1874. Personalty sworn under £350,000 Oct. 1874.

      BEALE, Thomas William. Clerk in office of Board of Revenue at Agra many years; author of Miftahu-t-Tawarikh or Key of history lithographed at Agra 1849; The Oriental biographical dictionary edited by the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1881. d. summer of 1875 very old. Sir H. M. Elliott’s History of India viii, 441–44 (1877).

      BEALE, William. b. Landrake Cornwall 1 Jany. 1784; a chorister of Westminster Abbey; Midshipman R.N.; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1 Dec. 1811; gained by his madrigal Awake sweet muse prize cup given by Madrigal Society 12 Jany. 1813; one of gentlemen of Chapel Royal 30 Jany. 1816 to 13 Dec. 1820; organist at Trinity college Cambridge 1 Nov. 1820 to Dec. 1821; organist of Wandsworth parish church 1822, afterwards of St. John’s church Clapham Rise; published A first book of madrigals, glees, &c. for 3, 4, and 5 voices 1815; Collection of glees and madrigals 1820. d. Paradise Row, Stockwell, London 3 May 1854.

      BEALE, William John (son of Wm. Beale of Camphill, Birmingham). Solicitor at Birmingham; legal adviser to Midland railway; chairman of orchestral committee of musical festivals 1870–76. d. Bryntirion near Dolgelly 21 May 1883 in 76 year.

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