A-Z of Entries

Robert Beatson of Rotherham, Secretary of Conference 1789, Committee 1790 / RB = 1.6.1778 Emley, Yorks Ann Beatson / subscr 1791 to Sullivan's Flights of Fancy / 1803 chemists, brewers & glassmen bankrupt / RB bur 7.2.1805 Ecclesfield Yorks  / 1815, 1818 oil of vitriol manufacturers (Robert, John & Thomas B) / will PCC 1827 John B, chemists, Masbrough, Rotherham / 1828 fire in premises / RB jr born 1779 died 1850

Beaufort 31.3.1805 at Philips / 12.5.1805 at Joseph Johnson's (& Edgworth) / 18.5.1805 dines (& Edgworth) / 9.6.1805 at Tooke's (& Edgworth) / 11.3.1808 at Joseph Johnson's (& H Edgworth) / 28.4.1809 again

Probably Daniel Augustus Beaufort DNB 1739-1821 whose daughter Frances Ann married Richard Lovell Edgeworth DNB 1744-1817 at St Anne Dublin on 31.5.1798 or perhaps his son Francis DNB 1774-1857

20.4.1788 Beaufoy, Henry. Add Abinger c.1 f44-5 to bibliography

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas Richard Beaumont of 26 Old Burlington St proposed member 9.11.1792 by William Bosville 2nded John Horne Tooke

GODWIN DIARY: 29.3.1795 mrs Beaumont at Bosville's / Beaumont 18.6.1795 at Parkinson's / 27.6.1796 at Telegraph / 28.6.1796 adv at Holcroft's / 4.10.1796 meet /13.3.1801 at Rickman's / 16.4.1801 at Lamb's (with Rickman) / 16.7.1804 Holcroft calls, on Beaumont / 29.9.1804 read Beaumont, accurante H(olcrof)t / 15.3.1805 sir G Beaumont at Northcote's / 26.12.1824 Beaumont, painter calls

Thomas Richard Beaumont 1758-1829 (…

HCR diary 4.4.1823 "I met by appointment at Aders Wordsworth, Sir Geo. Beaumont and Rogers." "Sir Geo. proposed bringing Fuseli" "Sir Geo. seemed to be in particular interested by these specimens of old German art. The Perugini (3 figures in a sort of open temple) he declared to be in parts hardly distinguishable from Raphael. The great painting by Van Eyck he spent a long time in examining"

George Howland Beaumont (DNB 1753-1827)

Beausejour 2.6.1792 at Brand Hollis'

Rev James Beaver of Corpus Christi College, Oxford proposed 27.6.1783 by  John Baynes 2nded Jeremiah Batley.  Son of Rev James Beaver (died 1777) curate of Lewknor. Oxon and his wife  Jane (died 1818) dau of Rev Thomas Skeeler (will PCC 1758). He matric at Oxford 1773 age 12, BA 1777, MA 1781, BD 1790. His younger brother was Philip Beaver DNB 1766-1813. His sister Catherine married 25.9.1794 John Gillies DNB 1747-1836. In 1800 he became rector of Childrey, Berks and on 4.1.1803 he married Henrietta Mary Halsey of St Mary Ash, Surrey there. He died 25.2.1840 at Dieppe and his obituary (…

11.1.1796 at KIng's Bebzunce see Belsunce

Me Beccaria at tea 2.8.1802. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1802 / 5.8.1802 call on Me Beccaria

The 1796 list entry and four J Beccaria entries shortly after the two above have all been coded to a person record for J Beccaria on the GD website, the two entries above should surely be coded to it as well as the editorial notes seem to agree

HCR diary 26.10.1817 "Poor Becher has had the misfortune to be, tho' innocently, involved in the late great Liverpool smuggling fraud".

                        3.1.1818 "called on Mrs Meyer to excuse myself from going to Mr Becker's with her this evening, but she was herself unwell" (Mrs Meyer was the future Mrs Aders)

                      26.4.1818 about Becher "There are very bad reports in circulation about him. He is charged with acts that amount to gross dishonesty"

                      20.6.1818 "chatted with Miss L. she seems fully aware of the nature of the…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Anthony Beck saddler of Oxford Street proposed member 31.1.1794 by John Williams 2nded Francis Weldon

GODWIN DIARY: 30.1.1796 Beck adv at Inchbald's

Not the context we would most expect to find him in but this Beck at Inchbald's could have been the SCI member above / 5.7.1773 St Marylebone bapt Anthony son of Richard Beck & Mary / SunFire 1777, 1779 Richard Beck sadler Oxford St  (Rd B coal merchant Grosvenor St St Geo Han Sq voted Fox 1780, 1784) / 1791 (St Thos Hospital admissions Anthony Beck 229 Oxford St / (Thale) London…

HCR diary 5.6.1834 re: Aders' pictures "Beckford is after some of the pictures and I have more hope of him than of anyone else"

William Thomas Beckford (DNB 1760-1844)

Bedder 2.2.1795 at Thelwal's / 8.4.1796 at Thomas Fawcett's / Godwin calls on 2.2.1813.

Mr Thomas Bedder of 6, St Thomas Apostle and Thomas Bedder jr both contributed to the London Corresp Socy Nov 1794 collection for state prisoners' families. Thomas Bedder of St Martin Ongar married Ursula Stanley of St Mary Aldermary at St Clement Eastcheap 4.1.1763, took an apprentice as member of Butchers Company in 1773 and was buried 4.7.1802 at St Mary Aldermary age 64. Thomas Bedder of Long Acre was buried at St Martins in the Fields 14.11.1831 age 66

28.3.1797 Bedfords at Townley's collection / 24.5.1799 Bedford jr at Carlisle's

Both above entries should maybe be added on GD website to person record for John Russell 6th Duke of Bedford, they were while his father Francis Russell 5th Duke (d 1802) was still alive, and he would have held the title Marquis of Tavistock. And the 1797 entry should maybe be added to the person record for the 5th Duke as well. The surname Bedford is not rare but I could find no other likely candidates.

(Beechey) 17.5.1800 at Milton Gallery

Presumably referred to William Beechey DNB 1753-1839, but unidentified in GD website. The brackets perhaps implied the person was only talked about or seen at a distance

HCR diary 18.12.1820 Mrs Aders talking of her father John Raphael Smith "Sir W Beechey used to receive half a guinea of S: and when he went into the country to paint his wife came for the money, but B: did not recollect the kindness of his friend"

William Beechey (DNB 1753-1839). For J R Smith see my background article "3 Wives, 3 Husbands Living"

12.7.1796 mrs Beacroft adv at mrs J Taylor's

Thomas Beecroft of Saxthorpe Hall, Norfolk married 1785 Judith Dixon, her will PCC 1842 widow of Norwich, execs friends Thomas Hudson banker of Norwich & Richard Taylor of Charterhouse Square (son of Mrs J Taylor above). They had two daughters but he died aged 33 on 1.6.1787. He was the son of John Beecroft d.1779, bookseller of Paternoster Row, from a Norwich family..

Subscr to Norwich Public Library 1796 Mrs Beecroft / subscr to Wm Enfield's Sermons 1798 Mrs Beecroft

17.7.1795 Beens at Foulkes'

spelt Been the name is rare, spelt Bean quite common. None of the Beens I found so far seem particularly likely

4.5.1796 miss Beetham adv at Opie's

see John Opie DNB 1761-1807. Jane Beetham was Opie's pupil, daughter of Edward Beetham, actor, author, inventor and bookseller of 27 Fleet St, and his wife Isabella, silhouette artist. Jane was named in Opie's divorce case but chose not to marry him and married a solicitor, John Read on 11.2.1800 at St Dunstan in the West, and exhibited at the RA as Mrs Read. Her cousin was Mary Matilda Betham.

Bel Arbre 16.3.1800 at John King's / 26.3.1800 again / 29.3.1800 meet

There was a seigneurie of Belabre and a cleric of that name was guillotined in the French Revolution. There is a place in France (Lot) called Bel Arbre. Otherwise I've had no luck in identifying this person - yet.