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

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СКАЧАТЬ 1836–38 and 1845–50, in Liverpool 1839–44; M.D. Edin. 1836; an eloquent and popular preacher; author of Memoir of Mrs. Mary Tatham 1838. d. in the pulpit of Waltham chapel, Hull 21 Jany. 1855. Life by his son Joseph Beaumont 1856, portrait; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. 1856, 381–403.

      BEAUMONT, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1 July 1795; L.S.A. 1822; surgeon at Bradford 1822 to death; pres. of Bradford Medical Association; alderman of Bradford; one of the founders of Bradford Temperance Society the first in England 2 Feb. 1830; author of An essay on the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors 1837. d. Bradford 16 Oct. 1859.

      BEAUMONT, William Rawlings. b. London 1803; studied at St. Bartholomews hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon to Islington dispensary; went to Toronto 1841; professor of surgery in Toronto Univ. 1843; surgeon to general hospital; M.D. Toronto 1850; emeritus professor of surgery in Trinity college; invented many surgical instruments, especially one for the making of deep sutures 1837, which suggested invention of the Singer sewing machine. d. 12 Oct. 1875. Canadian Lancet 1 Nov. 1875.

      BEAUREGARD, Elizabeth, Countess de (dau. of Joseph Hargett). Known as Miss Howard; remarkable for her beauty; mistress of Louis Napoleon to 1853 when he created her Countess de Beauregard. (m. 16 May 1854 Clarence Trelawney, Hussar officer in the Austrian army, he was b. 20 Dec. 1826 and obtained a divorce in Court of appeal Paris Feb. 1865). d. Chateau of Beauregard near Versailles 20 Aug. 1865 aged 42.

      BEAVAN, Charles (son of Hugh Beavan of Llowes, Radnorshire). b. March 1805; ed. at Aldenham and Caius coll. Cam., 22 wrangler 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 6 May 1873; practised in Chancery courts; an official examiner of Court of Chancery June 1866 to Jany. 1884 when office abolished; author of Reports of cases in Chancery argued and determined in the Rolls Court 36 vols. 1840–69, being the longest series of authorized reports ever published. d. 91 St. George’s road, Pimlico, London 18 June 1884. Solicitor’s Journal xxviii, 173, 592, 601 (1884).

      BEAVAN, Edward (younger brother of the preceding). b. 1814; ed. at Hounslow; practised as special pleader; barrister M.T. 3 May 1844; recorder of Chester 1864–66. d. 15 Feb. 1870.

      BEAZLEY, Samuel (son of Samuel Beazley of Whitehall, London, army accoutrement maker). b. Whitehall 1786; served as a volunteer in the Peninsula; designed St. James’s, Lyceum and City of London theatres, also 2 theatres in Dublin, 2 in Belgium, 2 in India and 1 in Brazil; erected London Bridge railway station, most of the stations on North Kent line and Lord Warden hotel at Dover; wrote and arranged more than 100 dramatic pieces chiefly farces and short comedies; author of The Roué [anon.] 3 vols. 1828; The Oxonians, a glance at society 3 vols. 1830. d. Tunbridge Castle 12 Oct. 1851 in 66 year. Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities, I have known, 2 series ii, 70–90 (1877); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Percy Hamilton 1851 in which he is drawn to the life.

      BECHER, Alexander Bridport (eld. son of Alexander Becher, captain R.N. who d. 1827). b. 12 June 1796; midshipman R.N. 28 Nov. 1812; captain on h.p. 20 March 1856, retired R.A. 11 June 1874; assistant in Hydrographic office 12 May 1823 to 1865, arranged and methodised all documents preserved there 1823–26; sec. to board of visitors of royal observatory; F.R.A.S. 1830, member of council; edited the Nautical magazine from its commencement in 1832 to 1871; author of The landfall of Columbus on his first voyage to America 1856. d. 46 Upper Gloucester place, London 15 Feb. 1876. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 1–6.

      BECHER, Lady Eliza (eld. dau. of John O’Neill, stage manager of the Drogheda theatre). b. Drogheda 1791; made her début in Dublin at Crow street theatre as The widow Cheerly in the Soldier’s daughter 1811 and in London at Covent Garden theatre as Juliet 6 Oct. 1814; the favourite actress in London both in comedy and tragedy 1814–19; said to have made £12,000 a year; acted for the last time 13 July 1819. (m. 18 Dec. 1819 Wm. Wrixon, M.P. for Mallow, he was b. 31 July 1780, assumed name of Becher, was created a baronet 1831 and d. 23 Oct. 1850). d. Ballygiblin near Mallow 29 Oct. 1872. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i, 33–74 (1844), portrait; Theatrical inquisitor vi, 243 (1815), portrait.

      BECHER, John Reid. b. 3 July 1819; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 6 March 1838; colonel 13 Oct. 1863; colonel commandant 15 Sep. 1881 to death; served in Afghan campaign 1842 and Sutlej campaign 1846; general 29 July 1878; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Southampton 9 July 1884.

      BECHER, Martin William (son of Wm. Becher of Norfolk, farmer who d. 1816). b. Norfolk; served in the Store-keeper general’s department; an officer in Buckinghamshire yeomanry cavalry 1821; won the Northampton steeple chase 4 April 1834; beat the Marquis of Waterford in a match for 1000 guineas a side 1834; won the St. Albans steeple chase 1835 and 1836 and many other races; the best steeple chase rider in England. d. 21 Maida hill, St. John’s Wood, London 11 Oct. 1864 aged 67. Sporting Review lii, 400–404 (1864); Scott and Sebright by the Druid (1885) 292–303, portrait.

      BECK, Baroness Von, assumed name of Wilhelmina Racidula; passed herself off as a Hungarian exile who had rendered good service to the cause of independence; came to Birmingham with her secretary Constant Derra July 1851, where she was assisted by many of the Liberal leaders; arrested as an impostor and confined in Moor st. police court 29 Aug.; author of Personal adventures during the late war of independence in Hungary 2 vols. 1850. d. in the ante-room of the Court at Moor st. Birmingham 30 Aug. 1851 aged about 54. The persecution and death of the Baroness Von Beck at Birmingham in August 1851, 8º. 1852; Athenæum (1852) 578, 629, 653, 701, 846 and 869; The facts of the case as to the pretended Baroness Von Beck by J. T. Smith 1852.

      BECK, Edward. Commanded a merchant ship; a slate merchant at Isleworth, Middlesex; constructed the great waterworks at Hampton; one of most successful growers of Pelargoniums in the kingdom, long unrivalled as an exhibitor; author of A treatise on the cultivation of the Pelargonium 1847; edited The florist and garden miscellany 4 vols. 1848–61. d. Worton cottage, Isleworth 15 Jany. 1861 aged 57. The Florist Feb. 1861, pp. 36–38.

      BECK, Richard. Manufacturing optician at 31 Cornhill, London; author of A treatise on the construction, proper use and capabilities of Smith, Beck and Beck’s achromatic microscopes 1865 and of 9 papers read before the Microscopical Society 1859–66. d. Stamford hill, London 30 Sep. 1866 aged nearly 39.

      BECK, Thomas Snow. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne; ed. at gr. school there, and in Cumberland; apprenticed to a surgeon at Newcastle; student at Univ. college London 1836; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1847; walked the Paris hospitals 1839–40; visited universities of Switzerland, Italy and Germany 1840–41; M.D. London 1849; M.R.C.P. 1852; practised in London 1841; phys. to Farringdon general dispensary 1850; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1845. d. 7 Portland place, London 6 Jany. 1877 aged 63. Medical Circular i, 209–211 (1852).

      BECKER, Carl Ludwig Christian. b. Ratzeburg in Mecklenberg Strelitz 16 July 1821; manager for Elliott brothers of London electrical engineers 1858; member of the firm 1873 to death; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1874. d. 55 St. Paul’s Road Canonbury 3 April 1875.

      BECKET, Thomas. M.R.C.S. 1794, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon 1 Foot Guards 8 July 1795 to 1809; surgeon to the Savoy 28 Sep. 1809. d. 5 Russell place, Fitzroy sq. London 21 July 1856 aged 82.

      BECKETT, Sir Edmund, 4 Baronet, b. Gledhow hall, Leeds 29 Jany 1787; M.P. for west riding Yorkshire 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847, and 11 Dec. 1848 to 23 April 1859; succeeded 17 Nov. 1872. d. Doncaster 24 May 1874. Personalty sworn under £300,000 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 547 (1874) lxv, 236 (1874).

      BECKETT, John Staniforth (son of Joseph Beckett, of Barnsley 1751–1840). Presented a dispensary СКАЧАТЬ