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	William Thomas Beckford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Thomas Beckford (October 1, 1760 – May 2, 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician.
		Beckford was primarily homosexual, and at the age of 19 notoriously had an affair with the Hon William Courtenay, later 3rd Viscount and 9th Earl of Devon, then ten years old.
		The opportunity of purchasing the complete library of Edward Gibbon gave Beckford the basis of his own library, and James Wyatt built Fonthill Abbey, in which this and the owner's art collection would be housed; it was completed in 1807.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Thomas_Beckford (603 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Beckford (politician)
		William Beckford (1709-1770) was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, and twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London.
		Beckford was born in Jamaica, and was sent back to England by his family in 1723 to be educated.
		His son, William Thomas Beckford, was a successful writer.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_Beckford_(politician) (112 words)

	Politician Encyclopedia Article @ VariedTastes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A politician is an individual involved in politics to the extent of holding or running for public office.
		In a state, individual politicians compose the executive branch of government and the office of Head of State (unless the head of state is a non-political figure, such as a king) as well as the legislative branch, and regional and local levels of government.
		The term "career politician" is sometimes used to distinguish an incumbent politician from a candidate.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Politician (330 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - William Beckford
		Beckford's father, twice Lord Mayor of London, was the richest man in England, with extensive holdings in the cloth industry, property, government bonds, and sugar plantations.
		Beckford portrayed himself in his most wicked colours as the villainous Vathek, the caliph who is satiated with sensual pleasures and builds a tower so he can penetrate the forbidden secrets of heaven itself.
		Beckford never again mingled with high society, but he was not permanently sequestered at Fonthill, and his letters to Franchi suggest that he sometimes ventured into the homosexual subculture of London.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biob2/beck06.html (2088 words)

	William Beckford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Beckford (politician) (1709–1770) – a political figure in London.
		William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844) – son of the preceding, a miscellaneous writer.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Beckford (95 words)

	Gothic Literature
		William Beckford (1760-1844) was another wealthy English kook with literary ambitions and enough money with which to indulge his own Gothy whims.
		Beckford created a fictional stand-in for himself in the character of Vathek, a jaded sensualist plagued by inexorable ennui after having seen, heard, felt and done it all (or so he thinks!).
		Embodying Beckford's notorious hedonism, his separation of the aesthetic from ethical considerations, it is a work that contained a variety of foreboding and incendiary ideas.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Chateau/8780/GothicLitera.html (1217 words)

	Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Proceedings vol.8
		Beckford was frequently short of money, probably because he took no interest in running his Jamaican estates and was cheated by his agents.
		Beckford was buried in a pink granite sarcophagus of his own design, above ground, close to the foot of the tower.
		Similarly, one of William Beckford’s great skills was his ability to place his treasures, all of which were amazing items when viewed individually, inside interior schemes so that they became intrinsic to the overall architecture of a room.
	www.brlsi.org /proceed04/events200309.htm (2492 words)

	IAGenWeb: Pott. Co. - 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Her father was a foreman for Sir William BECKFORD, of Fontanelle Abby, whose father was at one time Lord Mayor of England and grandfather to the present Duke of Hamilton.
		Hetzel is not a politician, but he believes it the duty of a good citizen to take an active interest in all local affairs, and vote and act for the best interest of his county and town.
		William HOUGH, a remote ancestor, was one of the Pilgrims who fled from England on account of religious persecutions in 1620, and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
	iagenweb.org /pottawattamie/Bios1891-H.htm (18896 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		William the Norman made a grant of land at Fonthill and Berengar Giffard is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as the holder of part of Fonthill, in contradistinction to the land at Fonthill Bishop granted to the Bishops of Winchester in 901.
		One of Berengar's sons William Giffard was Rufus's chancellor and held the bishopric of Winchester in gift from Henry I from 1100 ‑ 1129.
		The circumstances become interesting when it is noticed that William Giffard, who was in the hunting party in the New Forest, was nominated to the Bishopric on 3rd August 1100, the day the Council, assembled at Winchester, elected Henry to the throne and the day after Rufus's death.
	www.nadderfocus.com /gifford1.html (1548 words)

	Beckford Coat of Arms
		The name Beckford belongs to the early history of Britain since it was first used by the Anglo-Saxons.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John Beckford who settled in Jamaica in 1774; Edward Beckford who settled in Jamaica in 1661; Elizabeth Beckford settled in Maryland in 1677; and the aforementioned Peter Beckford who arrived in Jamaica in 1690.
		In Newfoundland, Robert Beckford was a boatkeeper of St. John's in 1681.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/beckford-coat-arms.htm (1277 words)

	Travellers in Egypt - William John Bankes
		William John Bankes is the man – a pioneer in Egyptology and Archaeology before such studies were deemed a science.
		In the circle of renowned artists, explorers and historians such as Lord Byron, William Beckford, Henry Salt, Alessanndro Ricci, Louis Maurice-Adollphe Linant de Bellefonds, Giovanni Finati and Giovanni Belzoni, Bankes is seldom given the recognition and respect he deserves for his vast contributions to historical discoveries.
		William John Bankes’ father, Henry Bankes, was a career politician who served parliament for approximately fifty years and was a well-respected backbencher in the Commons.
	www.travellersinegypt.org /archives/2004/10/william_john_bankes.html (2982 words)

	William Beckford - TheBestLinks.com - London, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, William Beckford (politician), William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		William Beckford - TheBestLinks.com - London, TheBestLinks.com:Disambiguation, William Beckford (politician), William Thomas Beckford,...
		William Thomas Beckford (1760 - 1844) - son of the preceeding, a miscellaneous writer
		This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.thebestlinks.com /William_Beckford-bp-printable-v-yes-ep-.html (119 words)

	Beckford Family Crest
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Beckford coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
		We encourage you to study the Beckford genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/beckford-family-crest.htm (544 words)

	1752 Encyclopedia Article @ VariedTastes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		January 31 - Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (d.
		May 23 - William Bradford, British-born printer (b.
		August 22 - William Whiston, English mathematician (b.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/1752 (534 words)

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		William Gay resided at Barnstaple, and since he lived in a large house, called the Red Cross, at the corner of Joy Street, facing Holland Street, it is reasonable to assume that he was in easy circumstances.
		William Gay's brothers were John and Richard, who resided at Frittelstock; James, Rector of Meeth; and Thomas, who lived at Barnstaple.
		Jonathan, the elder son of William Gay, who inherited the family property, was intended for the Church, but "severe studies not well suiting his natural genius, he betook himself to military pursuits,"[4] and, probably about the time of his father's death, entered the army.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/13790/13790-8.txt (16160 words)

	bc11 - The Blackheath Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Beckford, who had often advised Pitt (the Elder) on commercial and financial matters, was a wealthy absentee landlord who would have known well how sweetly George III respected sugar island revenues.
		) Beckford in 1752 was elected alderman for Billingsgate ward.
		William inherited business on the death of his older brother, and would be jibed, "To see a slave he could not bear, Unless it were his own".
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /blackheath/thebc11.htm (6276 words)

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		Arrival of Sir William Hamilton with the Nymph of the Attitudes.
		It was penned by Horne Tooke, and by his art put on the records of the city and on Beckford's statue; as he told me, Mr.
		You may be sure it was a subject carefully avoided at Stowe; and Beckford's death had not raised the glass or spirits of the master of the house.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/lthw410.txt (16064 words)

	"B" Famous People
		Baikie, William Balfour (1825-64) Explorer, naturalist, and linguist, born in Kirkwall, Orkney Is...
		Beaverbrook (of Beaverbrook and of Cherkley), (William) Max(well) Aitken, Baron (1879-1964) Politician and newspaper magnate, born in Maple, Ontario, SE Canada.
		Beckford, William Thomas (1760-1844) Writer and art collector, born in Fonthill, Wiltshire, S England, UK.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Bfam (17711 words)

	Gothic Fiction - Biographies
		William Beckford (1760-1844), novelist, at the age of ten inherited Fonthill Splendens, a 5,000 acre Wiltshire estate, and a huge fortune from his family’s Jamaican sugar plantation.
		William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and novelist, was the father of Mary Shelley [q.v.] and husband to Mary Wollstonecraft whose memoirs he published in 1798.
		William Maginn regarded the novel, which ran into many editions, as the best and most enduring of her works.
	www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /digital_guides/gothic_fiction/Biographies.aspx (13192 words)

	Beckford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		William Thomas Beckford 1: the architect James Wyatt '''William Thomas Beckford ''' (October 1, 1760 - May 2, 1844) w 3: London William Beckford (politician)William Beckford.
		Beckford was primarily homosexual, and at the age of 1 9: ng the complete library of Edward Gibbon gave Beckford the basis of his own library, and James Wyatt 26: ttp: beckford.c18.net/ Beckford iana: The William Beckford Website]
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	www.vermontreview.com /edge/5460-beckford.html (208 words)

	CCC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It argues that "nature writing and the Gothic are related, and uses the work of Ann Williams to argue that Salamanca's novels demonstrate a progression from the mode of Gothic" defined by Williams as male and female Gothic.
		Beckford d.10), and Hylas (MS Beckford d.9), never before published; with commentary, notes and introduction in Swedish, but texts of manuscripts in original English.
		This meticulous study of the numerous interconnections between Beckkford's life and Beckford's art is a welcome addition to Beckfordian scholarship and should prove highly useful to Beckford scholars.
	thesicklytaper.net /CCC.HTM (6453 words)

	The Times William Hogarth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bute's opponent and leader of the Commons, William Pitt, supported the interests of the war and the economic profit derived from the colonial exploitations it permitted.
		Pitt marches on stilts to fan the fires of war which the Union Officer of the King is trying to extinguish.
		William Beckford, the Lord Mayor and Pitt follower, who made a fortune through tobacco and sugar plantations in Jamaica, appears in the doorway on the left and points to a signboard advertising a naked Indian that reads 'Alive from America.'
	www.thelostleaf.com /detail.asp?artID=400 (301 words)

	George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Selwyn was a universal friend; he was equally at home with politicians, dilettanti, and children; he was a man of such consistent good nature, so unaffectedly kind-hearted, that every one, statesman, gambler, or schoolboy, liked to be in his company.
		As a politician Selwyn, as has already been said, was a sinecurist; he never took a political interest in affairs of state, and he looked at events which have become historical from an unpolitical point of view.
		Kindly and shrewd in worldly affairs, and well intentioned as a politician, but wholly lacking in strength of purpose, the third Duke of Grafton was a man who obtained the goodwill and lost the respect of his contemporaries.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books190c/selw.htm (20503 words)

	★ Books by William Beckford
		He studied at Westminster School, and made his career in the city.He became an alderman in 1752 and MP for the City of London in1753.His son, William Thomas Beckford, was a successful writer.
		William B Ward - Advances in Health Education and Promotion: Parts, A and B - 0892324910
		William H Robinson - Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America - 0940717336
	www.isbnwebservice.com /984633_william-baird_08042323931corinthians2corinthianscontaining.html (383 words)

	Spectator, The: Gothic tales
		Vathek, which Beckford wrote aged 21, tells the peculiar story of a wicked Caliph and his journey to damnation to propitiate a wicked genie.
		The MP for Wells was certainly a better conjuror of the grotesque than either Ms Ann Widdecombe or dear Edwina, although even Mr Beckford failed to include a torrid affair with John Major.
		It struck me as odd that a preponderance of these Gothic guys seemed to be politician types.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200305/ai_n9250483 (946 words)

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		In arguing against the delay caused by mandatory posting of banns, Fox gave lurid images of young rogues leaving their intendeds at the altar "after having prevailed upon the incredulous wench to admit him to her bed in view of the future marriage."
		Although the debate was dominated by this florid speech, and was concluded with entreaties by William Beckford in favor of sailors who wished to marry on shore leave, the opposition convinced no one to change their stance.
		Stephen Parker in his study of marriage law reform characterized Lord Chancellor Hardwicke as the "new breed of ruler...[who] through bribery and patronage skillfully acquired both a fortune and a reputation for probity." (Stephen Parker, Informal Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law, 1750-1989 [London: The MacMillan Press, 1990], p.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7023/clandestine.html (4582 words)

	William Dailey Rare Books, Ltd. - Fine Printing & Private Press Books
		BECKFORD, William VATHEK, a New Translation by Herbert B. Grimsditch.
		The Life and Works of William Caxton, with an Historical Reminder of Fifteenth Century England by Banjamin P. Kurtz, together with a Note on the Polycronicon by Oscar Lewis and an Appreciation of William Caxton by Edwin Grabhorn.
		Daughter of Richard Cobden the politician, Annie was married to Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922), bookbinder, founder of the Doves Press, and key figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.
	www.daileyrarebooks.com /0902fineprinting.htm (14352 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life and Letters of John Gay by Lewis Melville
		The records of the family have not been preserved, but at some time early in the seventeenth century there was at Frittelstock one John Gay, whose second son, William, was the father of the poet.
		Jonathan, the elder son of William Gay, who inherited the family property, was intended for the Church, but "severe studies not well suiting his natural genius, he betook himself to military pursuits,"
		William Raynor was the headmaster when Gay first went to the Grammar School, but soon he removed to Tiverton, and was succeeded by the Rev. Robert Luck.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/3/7/9/13790/13790-h/13790-h.htm (12186 words)

	London Merchant Genealogies - 1786 and later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Emphasis on the connections of family members with the hero of some military encounter, a famous admiral or politician, a notable writer, a successful exercise in colonisation, can deflect both amateurs and professional historians from gathering more of the often far-flung facts that successful family history requires.
		As a young man in London in the 1830s and 1840s, the novelist William Thackeray was constantly in Pattle company, while he and his parents when in France kept up with old Madame de L'Etang in her widowhood, as well as with her daughter Mrs.
		Of the family also was banker William Chapman (1792-1878) of Newcastle, an investor in the Australian Agricultural Company, son of Abel II Chapman.
	www.danbyrnes.com.au /blackheath/geneal0.htm (15332 words)

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