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Grimthorpe first directed the return of a nave roof matching the original high-pitched design, although the battlements added for the lower roof were retained.
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Grimthorpe's west front was cracking, again due to too strong mortar, and was repaired.
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 Important mid 19th century English Oak Wall Clock built on behalf of Baron ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, Q.C. (1816-1905), amateur architect, church restorer, horologist and creator of Big Ben.
A member of the eminent Beckett banking family, he created this wall clock for the Leeds branch of Beckett’s Bank in 1867.
Beckett & Co were taken over more than once, becoming London County Westminster & Parrs Bank, in 1923 the name was changed to Westminster Bank Ltd. The building was demolished in the early 1960’s.
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 GRIMTHORPE, EDMUND BECKETT, 1ST BARON (18161905) - Encyclopedia Britannica - GRIMTHORPE, EDMUND BECKETT, 1ST BARON ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
GRIMTHORPE, EDMUND BECKETT, 1ST BARON (18161905), son of Sir Edmund Beckett Denison, was born on the 12th of May 1816.
The St Albans Abbey Reparation Committee, which had been in existence since 1871, and for which Sir Gilbert Scott had carried out some admirable repairs, obtained a faculty from the Diocesan Court in 1877 to repair and restore the church and fit it for cathedral and parochial services.
His public spirit in undertaking the task was undeniable, but his treatment of the roof, the new west front, and the windows inserted in the terminations of the transepts, excited a storm of adverse criticism, and was the subject of vigorous protests from the professional world of architecture.
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 Quotation - Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
Sir Edmund Beckett, Baronet, Queens Counsel, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (1816-1905), was a lawyer and amateur horology and architect.
Part of Becketts additions included statues of the four evangelists around the western door, the statue of Matthew the Evangelist has Becketts face.
He was born on May 12 1816, studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was made a Q.C. in 1854, and was created Baron Grimthorpe in 1886.
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Earl of Malton, latterly 1st Marquess of Rockingham, 1742—50: his son, 2nd Marquess, Prime Minister, 1750—82: the latter's nephew, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, 1782—1833: the latter's son, 5th Earl, 1833—9: the latter's son, Viscount Milton, latterly 6th Earl, 1840—65, 1871—1902: the latter's grandson, 7th Earl, 1902—31.
Robert Petre or his father, the ninth Baron Petre, had £1,988-worth of work done on the house under the architect Samuel Wyatt, when the back wall was rebuilt and new rooms added.
Sir Coutts Trotter, 1st bt., 1822—37: his wid., 1839—51: her son-inlaw, Lieut.-gen. James Lindsay, 1853—5: the latter's son, Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd bt., 1854—65: the latter's mother, wid.
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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (1816 – 1905)
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 Beckett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christopher Beckett, 4th Baron Grimthorpe (1915 – 2003)
Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989), a Nobel Prize-winning Irish writer
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 Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, Q.C. May 12, 1816, Carlton Hall, Nottinghamshire, England - April 29, 1905), known for most of his life as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet was a lawyer, amateur horologist, and architect.
Works by Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe at Project Gutenberg
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Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron (1759-1834) British statesman, the son of George Grenville.
Greville, Sir Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628) Poet, born at Beauchamp Court, Warwickshire, C England, UK.
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1st Earl of Bewdley, K.G., P.C. was the leading Conservative politician between the two world wars and was Prime Minister for three terms (1923-4, 1924-29 and 1935-37).
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl of Bewdley, K.G., P.C. was the leading Conservative politician between the two world wars and was Prime Minister for three terms (1923-4, 1924-29 and 1935-37).
Beckett lived in France from 1937 on and wrote primarily in French after 1945.
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Bagot: 2nd Baron 212; Lewis (Bishop of Bristol and Norwich) 218; Sir William, 6th Bt (later 1st Baron) and w.
Beckett: Ernest (2nd Baron Grimthorpe) 146; Sir Gervase, 1st Bt 190; Rupert 42, 43; his w.
Carpenter: 1st Baron 114, 151; 2nd Baron 151; his w.
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She is the daughter of Sir Richard Gervase Beckett, 3rd Bt.
He was the son of Sir John Beckett, 1st Bt.
She was the daughter of Sir William Gervase Beckett, 1st Bt.
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 Edmund Barton - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Edmund Barton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He resigned in 1903 to become a High Court judge.
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He was the son of Sir Edmund Beckett-Denison, 4th Bt.
He was created 1st Baron Grimthorpe, of Grimthorpe, in the East Riding, co. York [U.K.] on 17 February 1886.
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Julian H.G. Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
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 UK peerage creations: Hereditary peerages with special limitations in remainder
Summaries are given of the special remainders in other cases (using the abbreviation "and h m of b" for "and the heirs male of his/her body lawfully begotten"); full details will be added in due course.
Grimthorpe of Grimthorpe in the East Riding of the County of York – Edmund Beckett (died 29 April 1905) ("and in default of such issue to the heirs male of the body of his father Sir Edmund Beckett, Baronet, deceased, lawfully begotten and to be begotten") (118 LJ p 53)
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Very soon, however, the committee found itself unable to raise the necessary funds, and it was at this juncture that a new faculty was granted to Lord Grimthorpe (then Sir Edmund Beckett) to " restore, repair and refit " the abbey at his own expense.
April 1905, being succeeded as 2nd baron by his See also:
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 Big Ben, Attractions of London, England
Several turret clocks around the world are inspired by the look of the Great Clock, including the clock tower of the Gare de Lyon in Paris and the Peace Tower of the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa.
This is due to the skill of its designer, the lawyer and amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison, later Lord Grimthorpe.
The Right Honourable Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, PC (1802-1867) was a civil engineer and politician.
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Beauchamp, Henry of Warwick, Duke of Warwick 1st, b.
Beauclerk, Charles, Duke of St. Albans 1st, b.
Beauclerk, Vere, Baron Vere of Hanworth 1, b.
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Due to this impasse, Parliament appointed barrister Edmund Beckett Denison as co-referee with Airy.
Edmund Beckett Denison, later Sir Edmund Beckett, the first Baron Grimthorpe, was a difficult man. He was described by one writer as:
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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (1816–1905), Chancellor and Vicar-General of the Province of York, 1877–1900, and clock designer
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice (1846–1935), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1908–1909, and writer
Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894–1986), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1955–1957, and Prime Minister, 1957–1963
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ALS "Grimthorpe," 2½pp, "33 Queen Anne N.W.," Mar 19, 1886.
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