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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (38), is said to have been salvaged from William Beckford's ' Fonthill Abbey '. Staircases: The 17th-century …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… have square pigeon cotes of the 17th century. Peter Beckford's hunt Kennels at Iwerne Stepleton were built about …
County of Middlesex. Calendar to the sessions records: new series
… Purchas of East Smithfield. John Crumpe of Laleham. George Beckford of Staines. James Hosier of the same. K. Robert …
County of Middlesex. Calendar to the sessions records: new series
… of the same. William Newberrie of the same. Sworn. William Beckford of the same. Sworn. John Miller of Islington, …
Old and New London
… reward for their charity in seeing how the great Alderman Beckford was lodged when he did not make the speech now …
Old and New London
… a committee to be appointed by the inhabitants. Alderman Beckford, whom we have already mentioned as a resident of the … It occupies the house which formerly belonged to Alderman Beckford, who lived here in princely splendour. The …
Survey of London
… in October 1754 the executors sold the lease to Richard Beckford, 209 a member of a prominent and wealthy family of West Indian planters, and a brother of Alderman William Beckford, who then lived at No. 22 Soho Square. Richard Beckford had previously lived on his plantations in Jamaica. …
Survey of London
… 173946, and Captain Jennings, 174850. 33 Alderman William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and 1769, lived at No. … of St. Barnabas, in the south-east corner of Soho Square), Beckford did little to improve the house. Instead, he spent … was very wet, and not a mouse stirred'. 172 Alderman Beckford died at No. 22 Soho Square in June 1770. His only …
Survey of London
… M.P., son of 1st Earl of Scarbrough, 17404. Julines Beckford, brother of William Beckford, 17445. Viscount Petersham, M.P., later 2nd Earl of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… House and estate were the property of the late Peter Beckford, Esq., author of Letters from Italy, &c., and have …