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

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.