BEAUCHAMP, HENRY BEAUCHAMP LYGON, 4 Earl (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 5 Jany. 1784; cornet 13 Dragoons 9 July 1803; lieut. col. 1 Life Guards 17 July 1821 to 10 Jany. 1837; colonel 10 Hussars 23 June 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for Worcestershire 1816–1831 and for West Worcestershire 1832–1853; succeeded 22 Jany. 1853. _d._ Madresfield Court, Great Malvern 8 Sep. 1863.
BEAUCLERK, AUBREY WILLIAM. _b._ 20 Feb. 1801; M.P. for East Surrey 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837. _d._ Ardglass castle, co. Down 1 Feb. 1854.
BEAUFORT, JOHN HENRY SOMERSET, 7 Duke of (_eld. child of Henry Charles Somerset, 6 Duke of Beaufort 1766–1835_). _b._ 5 Feb. 1792; cornet 10 Hussars 1811; aide de camp to Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula; captain 37 Foot 2 Dec. 1819 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Monmouth 30 Dec. 1813 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for West Gloucs. 12 Jany. 1835 to 23 Nov. 1835 when he succeeded as 7 Duke; junior lord of the Admiralty 1816–1819; lieut. colonel commandant of Gloucestershire yeomanry April 1834 to death; K.G. 1842; master of the Badminton fox hounds 1835 to death. _d._ Badminton, Gloucs. 17 Nov. 1853. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 series i_, 118–30 (1877); _Sporting Review xxxi_, 69–70 (1854); _I.L.N. xxiii_, 448, 476 (1853), _portrait_.
BEAUFORT, SIR FRANCIS (_younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort 1739–1831, V. of Collon, co. Louth_). _b._ Collon 1774; entered navy 21 June 1787; engaged in the action off Brest 1 June 1794; constructed with R. L. Edgeworth a telegraph from Dublin to Galway 1804; captain R.N. 30 May 1810; conducted survey of coast of Asia Minor 1810–12; granted pension for wounds 2 Dec. 1815, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; F.R.S. 30 June 1814; one of founders of Royal Astronomical Society 1820 and of Royal Geographical Society 1830; corresponding member of Institute of France; hydrographer of the Admiralty July 1832 to 30 Jany. 1855; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of _Karamania or a brief description of the south coast of Asia Minor_ 1817 which was the chief book of travels of its day. _d._ Hove near Brighton 17 Dec. 1857 in 84 year. _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 213–30; _Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv_, 47–54 (1858); _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 524–27 (1858).
BEAUFORT, FRANCIS LESTOCK (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1815; in Bengal civil service 1837–76 when he retired upon the annuity fund; judge of the 24 Purgunnahs beyond the suburbs of Calcutta 1863–76; author of _Digest of the criminal law procedure in Bengal_ 1850. _d._ 1879.
BEAUFOY, HENRY BENJAMIN HANBURY (_eld. son of Mark Beaufoy of London, astronomer 1764–1827_). Established 4 scholarships at Univ. of Cam.; gave city of London school £10,000; erected at cost of £10,000 Lambeth Ragged schools opened 5 March 1851, and invested £4,000 in perpetual trust for their maintenance; formed a library of 25000 volumes; privately printed his father’s _Nautical and hydraulic experiments_ 1834; F.R.S. 14 Dec. 1815, F.L.S. _d._ South Lambeth 12 July 1851 in 66 year. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_, 7–12 (1865).
BEAULIE, BARON A. DE. Belgian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in London 1 March 1869 to death, _d._ 43 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 11 Oct. 1872 aged 66.
BEAUMONT, MILES THOMAS STAPLETON, 8 Baron (_eld. son of Thomas Stapleton of Carlton hall, Yorkshire 1778–1839_). _b._ Richmond, Yorkshire 4 June 1805; fought a duel with major general Lorenzo Moore on Wimbledon Common 13 Feb. 1832 when he received a bullet in his breast which was never extracted; summoned to House of Lords by writ as one of the coheirs of barony of Beaumont 16 Oct. 1840; col. commandant of 4 West York Militia 18 May 1853 to death; author of _Austria and Central Italy_ 1849; _The late edict of Court of Rome_; _Lord Beaumont’s letter to Lord Zetland_ 1850, _7 ed._ 1850. _d._ 17 Bruton St. Berkeley sq. London 16 Aug. 1854.
BEAUMONT, EDWARD BLACKETT. _b._ 1802; F.R.S. 4 June 1835, F.R.A.S. _d._ 33 Norland sq. Notting hill, London 7 June 1878.
BEAUMONT, SIR GEORGE HOWLAND, 9 Baronet. _b._ Addington park, Surrey 12 Sep. 1828; succeeded 7 June 1845; sheriff of Leicestershire 1852. _d._ Cole Orton hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 8 June 1882.
BEAUMONT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Castle Donington, Leics. 19 March 1794; Wesleyan minister 1813 to death; minister in Edinburgh 1821–23 and 1833–35, in London 1831–32, 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_.