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

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). 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._