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

(1874), _portrait_. BEATSON, WILLIAM FERGUSON. _b._ about 1804; entered Bengal army 1820; served with British legion in Spain 1835–36; commander of the 10 regiment in Spain 13 July 1836; commanded the Nizam of Hyderabad’s division of cavalry to March 1851; organised a corps of 4000 Bashi Bazouks in Crimean war 1854–55, resigned command of the corps Sep. 1855; served in Indian mutiny 1857–58 when he raised and organised two regiments of cavalry in 6 months; M.G. 3 Oct. 1866; created a knight of San Fernando by Queen Regent of Spain. _d._ The vicarage New Swindon 4 Feb. 1872. _Nolan’s Russian war ii_, 753 (1857), _portrait_; _The war department and the Bashi Bazouks by W. F. Beatson_ 1856, _privately printed_. BEATTIE, JAMES. _b._ parish of Rayne, Scotland 27 Jany. 1781; a shoemaker at Gordonstown in Auchterless; conducted a school of from 30 to 40 pupils for 60 years for which he would never take any payment; known as “the Auchterless John Pounds” after the Portsmouth cobbler of that name who founded ragged schools and died 1839. _d._ Gordonstown July 1867. BEATTIE, JOSEPH HAMILTON (_son of George Beattie of North of Ireland, architect_). _b._ 12 May 1808; assistant engineer on London and Southampton railway 1837; assistant engineer and locomotive superintendent of London and south western railway 1851 to death; took out many patents for improvements in railway rolling stock and effected great saving in consumption of fuel in working locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1857. _d._ South Bank, Surbiton, Surrey 18 Oct. 1871. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 204–206 (1872). BEATTIE, WILLIAM (_son of James Beattie of Dalton, Annandale who d. 1809_). _b._ Dalton 1793; ed. at Clarencefield academy 1807–13 and Univ. of Edin. 1813–20, M.D. 1818; studied in France, Italy and Germany 1823–26; physician to Duke of Clarence 8 years and private secretary to him 3 years; L.R.C.P. 1827; practised at Hampstead 1827–45; foreign sec. to British Archæological Society; lost £7,000 in Albert Assurance Office Aug. 1869; author of _Journal of a residence in Germany 2 vols._ 1831; _Scotland illustrated 2 vols._ 1838; _The Waldenses illustrated 2 vols._ 1838; _The Danube_ 1844; _Life of Thomas Campbell 3 vols._ 1848. _d._ 13 Upper Berkeley st. London 17 March 1875. _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington iii_, 255–76 (1855). BEATTY, GEORGE. Second lieutenant R.M. 16 May 1795, colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855. _d._ Dublin 27 June 1857 aged 79. BEATTY, THOMAS EDWARD (_son of John Beatty, M.D._) Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. Edin. 1820, M.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. 1824; master of South-Eastern Lying-in hospital, Dublin; professor of medical jurisprudence at Royal college of surgeons Dublin, pres. 1850; helped to found City of Dublin hospital 1832; pres. of Dublin Pathological Society 1859; fellow of King and Queen’s college of physicians 2 May 1862, pres. 1864–65; M.D. Dublin 1863. _d._ 3 May 1872. BEAUCHAMP, JOHN REGINALD PYNDAR, 3 Earl (_2 son of Wm. Lygon, 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816_). Assumed name of Pyndar 22 Oct. 1813; succeeded 12 May 1823. _d._ 37 Portman sq. London 22 Jany. 1853 in 71 year. 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