BEAMONT, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_only son of Wm. Beamont of Warrington, solicitor_). _b._ Warrington 16 Jany. 1828; ed. at Warrington, Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; chancellor’s medallist 1850, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of his college 1852 to death; C. of St. John’s the Evangelist, Drury lane, London 1855; P.C. of St. Michael’s Cambridge 1857 to death; chief founder of Cambridge School of art 1858 and the Church Defence Association 1859; originator of the Church Congress 1861; author of _Catherine the Egyptian slave_ 1852; _Concise grammar of the Arabic language_ 1861; author with Rev. W. M. Campion of _The prayer-book interleaved_ 1868, _7 ed._ 1880. _d._ Trinity college, Cambridge 6 Aug. 1868.
BEAN, WILLIAM. Began riding with the Queen’s stag hounds 1792; a great steeplechase rider; rode 24 steeplechases and won 17 of them. _d._ Notting hill London about 31 March 1867 aged about 86. _Scott and Sebright by the Druid_ (1885) 282–89; _Illust. sporting news vi_, 241 (1867), _portrait_.
BEARD, REV. JOHN RELLY. _b._ Southsea, Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1800; ed. at Unitarian college, York; minister at Salford, Manchester 1825; kept a school at Salford 1826; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1838; minister at Strangeways, Manchester 1848–64; started a scheme for educating young men for home missions, which originated Unitarian home missionary board or college, of which he was the first principal; minister at Sale near Ashton-on-Mersey 1865–73; the first editor of the _Christian Teacher_ 1835; started the _Unitarian Herald_; author of _Voices of the church in reply to Dr. Strauss_ 1845; _Historical and Artistic illustrations of the Trinity_ 1846; _Illustrations of the divine in Christianity_ 1849; _Latin dictionary_ 1854; _Christ the interpreter of scripture_ 1865; _Christian evidence, an antidote to materialism_ 1868; _Autobiography of Satan_ 1872. _d._ Ashton upon Mersey 21 Nov. 1876. _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 13–17.
BEARD, WILLIAM (_son of a farmer at Banwell, Somerset_). _b._ Banwell 24 April 1772; a small farmer; dug out a cavern in Banwell hill and found many bones of the bear, buffalo, reindeer and wolf about 1826; let his land and spent all his time searching for bones; his collection of bones was bought by the Somersetshire Archæological and natural history society and is now in the museum at Taunton Castle. _d._ Banwell 9 Jany. 1868. _J. Rutter’s Delineations of north western division of Somerset_ (1829) 147–60, _portrait_.
BEARDMORE, NATHANIEL (_2 son of Joshua Beardmore of Nottingham_). _b._ Nottingham 19 March 1816; partner with James Meadows Rendel C.E. in London and Plymouth to 1848; took out a patent for piers and breakwaters 1848; one of the first hydraulic engineers; engineer to Public works loan comrs. and River Thames Conservancy board; M.I.C.E. 3 May 1842; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858; F.M.S. pres. 1861 and 1862; F.R.G.S. 1852; author of _Manual of hydrology_ 1852, _new ed._ 1867, which became the text book of the profession for hydraulic engineering. _d._ Broxbourne, Herts. 24 Aug. 1872; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi_, 256–64 (1873).
BEARDMORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Greenwich 6 May 1824; partner with Wm. Rigby in the Parkhead rolling mill and forge near Glasgow 1861–71, and partner with his brother 1871 to death, these works became largest of their kind in Scotland and achieved an European reputation; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1860; inventor and patentee. _d._ Brighton 11 Oct. 1877. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 268–70 (1878).
BEASLEY, JOSEPH NOBLE. _b._ 30 March 1832; lieut. col. Royal Irish Fusiliers 21 June 1880 to death. _d._ Ismaila, Egypt 20 Sep. 1882.
BEATRICE, MADEMOISELLE, stage name of Marie Beatrice Binda (_dau. of Chevalier Binda, British consul at Florence_). _b._ Lucca, Italy 5 Aug. 1839; acted at Theatres de l’Odéon and Vaudeville, Paris; made her début in London under name of Lucchesini at Haymarket theatre 3 Oct. 1864; played at Lyceum theatre 1865 and in the provinces 1866–68; organised a company 1870 with which she travelled to her death; played in London summers of 1872, 74, 75 and 78; produced and acted chief parts in _Our Friends_, _The Sphinx_, _Frou-Frou_ and other translations from the French. _d._ 102 Earl’s Court road, London 22 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Père Lachaise cemetery Paris 2 Jany. 1879. _The Stage i_, 61, 63 (1874), _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 388–90.
BEATSON, REV. BENJAMIN WRIGGLESWORTH (_son of Anby Beatson_). _b._ 24 Jany. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Pemb. coll. Cam., 16 wrangler 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his college 1827 to death; author of _Progressive exercises on the composition of Greek Iambic verse_ 1836, _10 ed._ 1871; _Exercises on Latin prose composition_ 1840; _Lessons in ancient history_ 1853; edited _Demosthenes’ Oration against Leptines_ 1864. _d._ Charles st. City road, London 20 July 1874.
BEATSON, GEORGE STEWART (_3 son of Henry Duncan Beatson of Campbelltown, Argyleshire_). _b._ Greenock May 1814; ed. at Glasgow Univ., M.D. 1836; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1836; assistant surgeon army medical department 1838; surgeon general 1 May 1863; principal medical officer of British troops in India 1863–68 and 1871 to death; in charge of Royal Victoria hospital Netley 1868–71; honorary phys. to the Queen 13 March 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Knollswood, Simla 7 June 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_, 229 (1874), _portrait_.
BEATSON, WILLIAM FERGUSON. _b._ about 1804; entered Bengal army 1820; served with British legion in Spain 1835–36; commander of the 10 regiment in Spain 13 July 1836; commanded the Nizam of Hyderabad’s division of cavalry to March 1851; organised a corps of 4000 Bashi Bazouks in Crimean war 1854–55, resigned command of the corps Sep. 1855; served in Indian mutiny 1857–58 when he raised and organised two regiments of cavalry in 6 months; M.G. 3 Oct. 1866; created a knight of San Fernando by Queen Regent of Spain. _d._ The vicarage New Swindon 4 Feb. 1872. _Nolan’s Russian war ii_, 753 (1857), _portrait_; _The war department and the Bashi Bazouks by W. F. Beatson_ 1856, _privately printed_.
BEATTIE, JAMES. _b._ parish of Rayne, Scotland 27 Jany. 1781; a shoemaker at Gordonstown in Auchterless; conducted a school of from 30 to 40 pupils for 60 years for which he would never take any payment; known as “the Auchterless John Pounds” after the Portsmouth cobbler of that name who founded ragged schools and died 1839. _d._ Gordonstown July 1867.
BEATTIE, JOSEPH HAMILTON (_son of George Beattie of North of Ireland, architect_). _b._ 12 May 1808; assistant engineer on London and Southampton railway 1837; assistant engineer and locomotive superintendent of London and south western railway 1851 to death; took out many patents for improvements in railway rolling stock and effected great saving in consumption of fuel in working locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1857. _d._ South Bank, Surbiton, Surrey 18 Oct. 1871. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 204–206 (1872).
BEATTIE, WILLIAM (_son of James Beattie of Dalton, Annandale who d. 1809_). _b._ Dalton 1793; ed. at Clarencefield academy 1807–13 and Univ. of Edin. 1813–20, M.D. 1818; studied in France, Italy and Germany 1823–26; physician to Duke of Clarence 8 years and private secretary to him 3 years; L.R.C.P. 1827; practised at Hampstead 1827–45; foreign sec. to British Archæological Society; lost £7,000 in Albert Assurance Office Aug. 1869; author of _Journal of a residence in Germany 2 vols._ 1831; _Scotland illustrated 2 vols._ 1838; _The Waldenses illustrated 2 vols._ 1838; _The Danube_ 1844; _Life of Thomas Campbell 3 vols._ 1848. _d._ 13 Upper Berkeley st. London 17 March 1875. _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington iii_, 255–76 (1855).
BEATTY, GEORGE. Second lieutenant R.M. 16 May 1795, colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855. _d._ Dublin 27 June 1857 aged 79.
BEATTY, THOMAS EDWARD (_son of John Beatty, M.D._) Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. Edin. 1820, M.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. 1824; master of South-Eastern Lying-in hospital, Dublin; professor of medical jurisprudence at Royal college of surgeons Dublin, pres. 1850; helped to found City of Dublin hospital 1832; pres. of Dublin Pathological Society 1859; fellow of King and Queen’s college of physicians 2 May 1862, pres. 1864–65; M.D. Dublin 1863. _d._ 3 May 1872.
BEAUCHAMP, JOHN REGINALD PYNDAR, 3 Earl (_2 son of Wm. Lygon, 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816_). Assumed name of Pyndar 22 Oct. 1813; succeeded 12 May 1823. _d._ 37 Portman sq. London 22 Jany. 1853 in 71 year.