Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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_