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

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      BECKETT, Sir Thomas, 3 Baronet. b. Leeds 1 Jany. 1779; succeeded 31 May 1847. d. Somerby park near Gainsborough 17 Nov. 1872. Personalty sworn under £350,000 March 1873.

      BECKETT, William (5 son of Sir John Beckett, 1 Baronet 1743–1826). b. Leeds 3 March 1784; principal partner in the eminent banking firm of Beckett and Co. of the Leeds “Old Bank”; M.P. for Leeds 1841 to 1852 and for Ripon 1852 to 1857. d. Brighton 26 Jany. 1863. Rev. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 506–509.

      BECKWITH, John Charles (eld. child of John Beckwith of Halifax, Nova Scotia). b. Halifax 2 Oct. 1789; ensign 50 Foot 1803, exchanged into 95 Foot 1804, captain 1808 to 20 Jany. 1820 when placed on h.p.; served in Hanover, Denmark and Sweden, and in the Peninsula 1809–14; lost his left leg at Waterloo where 4 horses were killed under him 18 June 1815; C.B. 22 June 1815, M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; visited the Vaudois valleys Piedmont Oct. 1827 and 5 succeeding years, lived at St. Jean 1834–39 and at La Tour 1841–51, established 120 schools in the Vaudois valleys all of which he frequently inspected; knight of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus 15 Dec. 1848. (m. 20 June 1850 Caroline Volle of the Vaudois). d. La Tour 19 July 1862. bur. in the cemetery of Tour Pellice. General Beckwith, his life and labours among the Waldenses of Piedmont by J. P. Meille 1873.

      BECKWITH, Joseph. An early member of the Corresponding Society which was founded 1791; a contemporary of Hardy and Thelwall; lived in Clerkenwell nearly 60 years. d. 3 Dec. 1860 aged 84.

      BECKWITH, William (eld. son of Wm. Beckwith of Trimdon, co. Durham 1772–1847). b. 20 Aug. 1795; cornet 16 Dragoons 7 Jany. 1813; major 14 Dragoons 14 Feb. 1828 to 6 Dec. 1833 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Hussars 17 July 1859 to death; general 9 April 1868; K.H. 1832; sheriff of Durham 1858. d. Silkworth near Sunderland 23 Feb. 1871.

      BEDDOME, John Reynolds. M.R.C.S. 1811; M.D. Erlangen; surgeon at Romsey 1811 to death; mayor of Romsey 6 times, d. Romsey 26 Dec. 1859. I.L.N. xxxiv, 385 (1859), portrait.

      BEDFORD, Francis Russell, 7 Duke of (eld. child of John Russell 6 Duke of Bedford 1766–1839). b. 13 May 1788; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1808; M.P. for Beds. 1812 to 1832; summoned to House of Lords as Baron Howland 15 Jany. 1833; succeeded as 7 Duke 20 Oct. 1839; P.C. 6 July 1846; K.G. 26 March 1847; lord lieutenant of Beds. 29 Nov. 1859; high steward of Cambridge 1860; master of the Oakley hounds to 1828 when he sold the pack to Lord Southampton for £2,000, master again 1836–39. d. Woburn Abbey, Beds. 14 May 1861. Baily’s Mag. i, 57–59 (1860), portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii, 283–86, iii, 463–74 and iv. 331–37.

      BEDFORD, William Russell, 8 Duke of. b. Grosvenor square London 1 July 1809; M.P. for Tavistock 10 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841; succeeded 14 May 1861. d. 6 Belgrave sq. London 26 May 1872. Personalty sworn under £600,000 June 1872. I.L.N. lx, 555. 592, 623 (1872), portrait.

      BEDFORD, Francis. b. 1799; apprenticed to Finlay a bookbinder 1814; worked under Charles Lewis, foremost of English bookbinders; carried on business for benefit of Lewis’s widow; partner with John Clarke who was unrivalled in tree marbled calf; afterwards in business alone at 91 York st. Westminster; the best binder in England or perhaps Europe. d. 12 Coningham road, Shepherd’s Bush 8 June 1883. His library was sold by Sothebys 21, 22, 24 and 25 March 1884 for £4,876 16s. 6d.

      BEDFORD, George Augustus. b. 8 Feb. 1809; entered navy 23 Dec. 1823; Captain 2 Jan. 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; F.R.G.S. 1859. d. The Elms, Sydenham hill 11 Feb. 1879.

      BEDFORD, Rev. John (son of John Bedford of Wakefield). b. Wakefield 27 July 1810; Wesleyan minister at Glasgow 1831; at Manchester 1855 to death; sec. to general chapel committee 1860–72; pres. of conference 1867; author of Correspondence with the Rev. Wm. Sutcliffe relative to the doctrines, ministry and system of the Wesleyan Methodists 1842. d. Chorlton-cum-Hardy near Manchester 20 Nov. 1879. I.L.N. li, 232 (1867), portrait.

      BEDFORD, Paul John. b. Bath 24 Jany. 1792; made his début on the stage at Bath 1815; acted in Ireland and Scotland; made his début in London at Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1824 as Hawthorn in opera of Love in a village; played at Adelphi theatre 1838–67; had one of the deepest and richest bass voices ever heard, his best parts were Blueskin in Jack Sheppard 1839, Jack Gong in The green bushes 1845 and the Kinchin cove in The flowers of the forest 1847; took his farewell of the stage at the Queen’s theatre 16 May 1868; sang at Weston’s Music hall London and The hall by the sea Margate 1869; author of Recollections and wanderings 1864; Drawing room dramas 1874. (m. (1) Miss Green of Dublin, an actress who d. April 1833 aged 32). (m. (2) Miss Verinder, a pianist and harpist, she d. 1864). d. Lindsey place, Chelsea 11 Jany. 1871. Theatrical times i, 129 (1847), portrait; Illust. sporting news ii, 180 (1863), portrait, v. 133 (1866), portrait.

      BEDINGFELD, Felix William George Richard (youngest son of Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5 Baronet 1767–1829). b. 12 Aug. 1808; crown comr. of Turk’s Island in the Bahamas 1842–49; barrister L.I. 26 April 1849; master of supreme court of Trinidad 1849–54; colonial sec. for and member of council of Mauritius 1860–68; C.M.G. 1869. d. Pilgrim, Lymington, Hants. 7 Dec. 1884.

      BEDINGFELD, Sir Henry Richard Paston, 6 Baronet. b. Oxburgh, Norfolk 10 May 1800; succeeded 22 Nov. 1829. d. Oxburgh 4 Feb. 1862.

      BEDSON, George. b. Sutton Coldfield, Warwick 3 Nov. 1820; manager of business of Messrs. Johnson of Manchester 1851; manager of Bradford iron works 1858 to death; initiated and perfected many inventions in the iron and wire trades; propounded theory of continuous brakes for railway trains about 1864; lived at Bradford 1858–72 and 1882 to death, and at Marple, Cheshire 1872–82. d. Bradford house, Manchester 12 Dec. 1884.

      BEECH, Rev. Hugh. b. Chesterton, Staffs. 3 June 1787; Wesleyan minister 1811 to death, d. Cheedle, Staffs. 22 Feb. 1856. The good soldier, a memoir of Rev. Hugh Beech 1856.

      BEECHAM, Rev. John. b. Barnoldby-le-Beck near Great Grimsby 1787; became a Wesleyan preacher 1815; general secretary of Wesleyan Missionary Society 1831 to death; pres. of Wesleyan conference 1850; author of An essay on the constitution of Wesleyan Methodism 1829, 3 ed. 1851; Ashantee and the Gold Coast 1841. d. Canonbury, London 22 April 1856. Wesleyan Meth. Mag. lxxix, pt. 2, 577–605 (1856).

      BEECHEY, Frederick William (2 son of Sir Wm. Beechey R.A. 1753–1839). b. 17 Feb. 1796; entered the navy 7 July 1806; went with Sir John Franklin to Spitzbergen on his first expedition 1818; with Edward Parry in the Hecla 1819; helped to survey north coast of Africa Nov. 1821 to July 1822; commanded the Blossom in the Pacific 1825–28; captain 8 May 1827; surveyed coast of Ireland 1837–47; superintendent marine department of Board of Trade 1850 to death; aide de camp to the Queen 18 July 1851 to 11 Sep. 1854; R.A. 11 Sep. 1854; F.R.G.S. 1833, pres. 1855 to death; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1824, vice pres. 1854; author of Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Behring’s Strait 2 vols. 1831; A voyage of discovery towards the north pole 1843. d. 8 Westbourne crescent, Hyde Park, London 29 Nov. 1856. Proceedings of Royal Society viii, 283–87 (1856).

      BEECHEY, George D. (brother of the preceding). Portrait painter; exhibited 24 portraits at the R.A. 1817 to 1832; went to Calcutta about 1830; court painter and controller of the household to King of Oudh. (m. an Indian Lady called Hinda, whose portrait he sent to the R.A. 1822). Supposed to have died in India 1856.

      BEECHEY, Henry William (brother of the preceding). travelled with Belzoni in Egypt 1816–17; examined and reported on antiquities of the Cyrenaica for Colonial Office СКАЧАТЬ