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    Sir William Beckford (December 1709 – 21 June 1770) was a Jamaican-born planter and Whig politician who twice served as Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and...
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    William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be...
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  • William Beckford may refer to: William Beckford (politician) (1709–1770), Jamaican-born politician and planter William Beckford (novelist) (1760–1844)...
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  • Tyson Beckford (born 1970), American supermodel and actor William Beckford (1709–1770), English politician and slave owner; Lord Mayor of London William Beckford...
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    Peter Beckford (c. 1672/3 – 3 April 1735) was a Jamaican-born planter, politician and merchant who served as speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica...
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    Clack. He attracted infamy for a homosexual affair with art collector William Beckford from boyhood when it was discovered and publicised by his uncle. From...
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    grounds between Beckford's house in Lansdown Crescent and the tower were landscaped and planted to create Beckford's Ride. William Beckford's ability to build...
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  • Sir William Thomas and the widow of John Eversfield. He was uncle to Peter Beckford. Following the restoration he became a prominent Tory politician in...
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  • of fellow politician William Beckford. Beckford also owned several slave plantations in the British colony of Jamaica. J. Brooke, 'Beckford, Julines (...
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    Sir Peter Beckford (c. 1740 – c. 1811) was a British writer, planter, art collector and politician who was the patron of classical composer and pianist...
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  • Richard Beckford (died 12 August 1796) was an English Whig politician. Beckford was one the first mixed-race Members of Parliament of the Parliament of...
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  • James Beckford Wildman (19 October 1789 – 25 May 1867) was an English landowner and Tory politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester...
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    Colonel Peter Beckford (c. 1643 – 3 April 1710) was an English-born planter, merchant, military officer and colonial administrator who served as the acting...
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    Louisa Pitt (category Beckford family)
    Peter Beckford (1740–1811) on 22 March 1773 in Dorset. Sir Peter Beckford was a writer, a huntsman, and the cousin of the English novelist William Thomas...
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    on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021. Beckford, Martin (29 April 2011). "Royal wedding: Prince William and Kate Middleton become Duke and Duchess...
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  • (1928–2011), West Indies cricket captain Peter Beckford (junior) (1672–1735), politician William Beckford (1709–1770), plantation owner, Lord Mayor of London...
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  • 22 July 1798), married first Francis March, second on 8 June 1756 William Beckford. The Ven. John Hamilton (1726 – 12 August 1756), unmarried, Archdeacon...
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    Caribbean the following year at the suggestion of a Jamaican sugar planter William Beckford. In North America, a second British attempt to capture Louisbourg succeeded...
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    Leonardo Barker, professional American football player Reginald Beckford, sprinter William Bedford, former basketball player Rolando Blackman, former basketball...
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    1844), whispering the name of his son and heir "Come quick! Quick!" — William Beckford, English novelist and art collector (2 May 1844), in a message to his...
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  • A Harlot's Progress (category Paintings by William Hogarth)
    House in 1755, the country house of William Beckford (1709–1770), a politician and father of William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844) builder...
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    William Jefferson Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, PC, FRSL (born 26 March 1961) is a British politician and life peer who served as Leader of the Conservative...
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    Religion, Neo-Traditionalism, Messianism, and Ethno-Religious Conflict". In Beckford, James A.; Demerath, Jay (eds.). The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of...
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    Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (category Garter Knights appointed by William IV)
    Museum between 1834 and 1852. He married Susan Euphemia Beckford, daughter of William Thomas Beckford and Lady Margaret Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon...
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    William Beckford (1709–1770), politician and twice Lord Mayor of London. He inherited about 3,000 enslaved people from his brother Peter. William Thomas...
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    oversaw the sale of his library at auction to William Beckford for £950. What happened next suggests that Beckford may have known of Gibbon's moralistic, 'impertinent...
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  • Henry Baring (18 January 1777 – 13 April 1848) was a British banker and politician. He was the third son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, the founder...
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    April 2017 New Statesman, vol. 129 [2000], Issues 4468–4479, p. 24 Martin Beckford, "Married Cabinet minister accused of affair with campaigner" in The Daily...
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  • Leo Rucka, as well as three Olympians (Funmi Jimoh '06, Allison Beckford '04, and William Fred Hansen '63). Notable Rice University alumni Howard Hughes...
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  • writer Vivian Virtue, poet Sylvia Wynter, writer Kerry Young, author Tyson Beckford, model Martine Beswick, model, actress Carla Campbell, model Naomi Campbell...
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