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.
BEALES, EDMOND (_son of Samuel Pickering Beales of Newnham, Cambridge, merchant_). _b._ Newnham 3 July 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; revising barrister for Middlesex 1862–66; president of National league for independence of Poland 1863; chairman of the Circassian committee; pres. of Reform league 1865 to 10 March 1869, league was dissolved 13 March 1869; contested Tower Hamlets Nov. 1868; judge of county courts for Beds. and Cambs. 17 Sep. 1870 to death. _d._ Osborne house Bolton gardens south, Brompton 26 June 1881. _Annual Register_ (1866) 98–102.
BEAMAN, GEORGE. _b._ near London 1803; apprenticed to Mr. Holland of Knutsford, surgeon; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1852; M.D. St. Andrews 1854; partner with Mr. Hewson, apothecary in James street, Covent Garden 1824; founded with Thomas Wakley, the new Equitable life assurance office; medical officer of London and South Western railway about 1840 to death; a leading general practitioner. _d._ 3 Caversham, road, Kentish Town 15 Jany. 1874. _Medical times and gazette i_, 142 (1874).
BEAMES, JOHN. Barrister L.I. 25 May 1811, bencher 1832; comr. of lunatics 1821–23; comr. of bankrupts 1823–30; K.C. Nov. 1832; author of _The elements of pleas in equity_ 1818; _A brief view of the writ Ne exeat regno as an equitable process, 2 ed._ 1824; _A summary of the doctrine of the Court of Equity with respect to costs_ 1822, _2 ed._ 1840; _Sketch of the doctrine relative to commitments in bankruptcy_ 1827. _d._ 17 Oct. 1853 aged 72.
BEAMES, REV. THOMAS. Educ. at Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1838; C. of St. Bride’s Fleet st. London 1844–46; C. of St. James’s Westminster 1846 to death; author of _Rookeries of London_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1852; _Plea for educational reform_ 1856. _d._ Godolphin road, Shepherds Bush 6 Aug. 1864.
BEAMISH, FRANCIS BERNARD (_6 son of Wm. Beamish of Cork, porter brewer 1760–1828_). _b._ Beaumont near Cork 5 April 1802; ed. at Rugby; M.P. for Cork 1837–1841, and 1853 to 1865; mayor of Cork 1843, sheriff of co. Cork 1852; chairman of Reform club London to death. _d._ Totnes, Devon 1 Feb. 1868.
BEAMISH, REV. HENRY HAMILTON. Minister of Holy Trinity chapel, Conduit st. London 1832–62; V. of Old Cleeve, Somerset 1862–65; V. of Wimbish 1865–69; R. of Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks 1869 to death; author of _Romanism and Tractarianism refuted_ 1853; _Lectures, Who is Antichrist_ 1854. _d._ Lillingstone Dayrell rectory 23 Feb. 1872.
BEAMISH, NORTH LUDLOW (_brother of Francis Bernard Beamish_). _b._ 31 Dec. 1797; ed. at Sandhurst; cornet 4 dragoon guards 7 Nov. 1816, captain 1823–26 when placed on h.p.; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1827; K.H. 1837; lieut. colonel in Hanoverian service 1852; sheriff of city of Cork 1855; author of _Peace campaigns of a cornet [anon.] 3 vols._ 1829; _History of the King’s German legion 2 vols._ 1832–37; _The discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century_ 1841; _On the uses and application of cavalry in war_ 1855. _d._ Ann Mount near Glanmire, Cork 27 April 1872.
BEAMISH, RICHARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 16 July 1798; ensign Coldstream Guards 1814–18 when placed on h.p.; assistant engineer on the Thames tunnel Aug. 1826 and resident engineer Dec. 1834 to Aug. 1836; engineer for Cork and other counties in Ireland 1828–34; resident engineer of Gloucester and forest of Dean railway to 1850; M.I.C.E. 27 Jany. 1829; F.R.S. 24 March 1836; author of _Popular instruction on the calculation of probabilities translated from the French of A. Quetelet_ 1839; _A treatise on elocution_ 1854; _A memoir of the life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel_ 1866; _The Psychonomy of the hand, 2 ed._ 1865. _d._ Bournemouth 20 Nov. 1873. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl_, 246–51 (1875).