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  Encyclopedia: Gilbert Abbott a Beckett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett (January 9, 1811 - August 30, 1856) was an English writer.
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett was educated at Westminster School, and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1841.
He was the father of two other Victorian writers, Gilbert Arthur a Beckett and Arthur William a Beckett.
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 A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT - LoveToKnow Article on A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT (1811-1856), English writer, was born in north London on the gth of January 1811.
His eldest son GILBERT ARTHUR A BECKETT (1837-1891) was born at Hammersmith on the 7th of April 1837.
A younger son, ARTHUR WILLIAM A BECKETT (1844-1909), a well-known journalist and man of letters, was also on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, and gave an account of his father and his own reminiscences in The A Becketts of Punch (1903).
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 Gilbert Arthur a Beckett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett (1837 – October 15, 1891) was an English writer.
He was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.
Graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, as a Westminster scholar in 1860, he was entered at Lincoln's Inn but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing Diamonds and Hearts at the Haymarket in 1867.
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 Gilbert Abbott a Beckett -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett (January 9, 1811 - August 30, 1856) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English writer.
His elder brother, Sir William a Beckett (1806-1869), became chief justice of Victoria, (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia.
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett was educated at (Click link for more info and facts about Westminster School) Westminster School, and was called to the bar at (Click link for more info and facts about Gray's Inn) Gray's Inn in 1841.
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 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811 – 1856) was an English comic writer.
He was born in London, the son of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas à Becket.
His elder brother, Sir William à Beckett (1806 1869), became chief justice of Victoria, Australia.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (Gh-Gin)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett was an English humorist and playwright.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English author of essays, verse and novels.
Gilbert Charles Stuart was an American portrait painter.
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 Chapter Abbott <i>to</i> Adamnan of A by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
Abbott, Jacob (1803-1879).—Educationalist and miscellaneous author, born at Hallowell, Maine, educated at Bowdoin College and Andover, entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, but was best known as an educationist and writer of religious and other books, mainly for the young.
Abbott, John Stevens Cabot (1805-1877).—Historian, etc., born Brunswick, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College He studied theology and became a minister of the Congregational Church at various places in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856).—Comic writer, born in London, the son of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas à Becket.
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 English Prose Drama: Bibliography
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck [1876], Dan'l Druce, flsmith.
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck [1904], The fairy's dilemma.
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck [1870], The gentleman in fl.
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 John Graham-gilbert ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Gilbert Filloeul, Moses with the Tablets of the Ten Commandments, 17th century
Placing two or three photographs together within a frame, Gilbert creates a visual line of enquiry by shifting the focus from viewing an image on its own, to looking at it in terms of its relationship to another.
Sir Alfred Gilbert: Maquettes for the Sam Wilson Chimneypiece c.1908-14.
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 Alibris: John Leech
by Beckett, Gilbert A, and A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, and Leech, John (Illustrator)
Beckett's The Comic History of Rome, first published in London in 1852, is now available in a reprint.
Readers will welcome Beckett's humor and witty representation of great chapters of Roman history from the earliest times to the death of Caesar.
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GILBERT ABBOTT À BECKETT, too, the whimsically witty, the drolly satirical, the comically caustic.
BRIEFLESS Junior,') son of that GILBERT ABBOTT À BECKETT who was one of my earliest 'Stars.' His brother, a second GILBERT À BECKETT, took his seat at the Table a few years later.
STANSFELD sat for Huddersfield, and MARJORIBANKS for Hythe, a LAWSON for Knaresborough, a BECKETT for Leeds, a CHILDERS for Malton, a MANNERS for Newark-upon-Trent, having a certain WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE for colleague.
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 Clarice Beckett ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
The magazine, itself designed as an art object sumptuously presented in a large (38 x 28 cm) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions.
Sister Wendy Beckett observes that the mind may be aware only of some mysterious truth.
We are taken into a realm that is potentially open to us, (and) we are made more aware of what we are meant to be...
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 [Leech, John] A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
[Leech, John] A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND London Bradbury, Agnew and Co. 1877
Two volumes issued by the publisher as one.
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 About The Nineteenth Century - Art and Architecture Title List
The comic guide to The Royal Academy, for 1864.
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott see À Beckett, Arthur William.
Adams, Maurice Bingham see also Godwin, Edward William.
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 Research Guide on Legal Humor, Odd or Humorous Laws, Anecdotes, etc. : Vanderbilt University Law School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gilbert, Michael Francis, The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes (K183.O95 1986)
Harris, Sydney, So Sue Me: Cartoons On the Law (NC1429.H33315 A4 1993)
A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, The Comic Blackstone (K184.2 A2 1985)
www.law.vanderbilt.edu /library/research/legal_humor.html   (187 words)

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