Thomas Alcock Beck
Thomas Alcock Beck | |
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| Born | 31 May 1795 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England |
| Died | 26 April 1846 (aged 50)[1] |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Author |
| Known for | Author of Annales Furnesienses |
Thomas Alcock Beck (1795–1846) was an English author known for writing Annales Furnesienses (1844), a history of Furness Abbey, which was dedicated by permission to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and which contained twenty-six steel engravings and several woodcuts.[2] Beck was a long-term resident of Hawkshead in Lancashire, where his parents had lived at The Grove. He used a wheelchair for much of his life, being unable to walk due to a spinal complaint. At one time he had attended Hawkshead Grammar School and he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1814, but left without taking a degree.
Around 1819, he commenced the building of his regency mansion Esthwaite Lodge (subsequently a youth hostel), to the design of George Webster. The grounds were specially laid out with easy gradients for his wheelchair.[3] Besides other antiquarian interests, he also edited Dr. William Close's unfinished work An Itinerary of Furness.
Marriage
[edit]On 25 April 1838 he married Elizabeth Fell of Hawkshead[4] (formerly of Ulverston), having obtained a special license to allow the ceremony to take place within his own home.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hawkshead Benefice" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Images of Cumbria - Hawkshead Parish".
- ^ Thomas Alcock Beck: article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition available by subscription, retrieved 4 December 2013
- ^ "Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project".
- ^ Original Hawkshead parish register, deposited with Cumbria Archive Service, Kendal.
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