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City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… to attend a Common Hall on the precept of the Lord Mayor (Beckford) to present to the Crown a petition for redress of …
Old and New London
… late Duke of Hamilton, who married the daughter of William Beckford, the author of "Vathek," and who took a pride in … years 1828 and 1830 No. 12 was the residence of William Beckford, the author of "Vathek," and the owner of the once …
Old and New London
… Prince of Wales or the Duke of Sussex taking the chair. Beckford was frequently a guest, and so were "Beau" Brummell, …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… independent tone of his predecessors in the civic chair, Beckford and Trecothick. The leading Members of the … that Crosby adopted the political faith of his predecessor Beckford, and the City certainly felt no want of the vigorous …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… corners, the first leading to Great Washbourne and Beckford, the second and third joining the main road from … of repair in 1596. 31 Alderton village is midway between Beckford railway station, opened in 1865, and Gretton …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 16 a year in rent in 1325. 294 In 1386 Sir John Cheyne of Beckford was licensed to treat with Bolbec for a life grant … of the estate, 295 which was afterwards associated with Beckford manor. The estate was not among those confirmed to … possession of Eton College in 1448 297 it was granted with Beckford to Fotheringhay College in 1462. 298 In the 16th …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The village has developed along its main thoroughfare, the Beckford-Elmley Castle road, which runs from south to north … to the bishopric of Worcester, 39 and, as that estate like Beckford manor appears to have later passed from the bishop … held 8 hides at ASHTON which before 1071 were joined with Beckford manor by William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford. 40 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Beckford BECKFORD Beckford lies 6 miles east of Tewkesbury, on the southside of … (431 a.) to Dumbleton parish; the remaining 1,990 a. of Beckford (including Grafton) were transferred to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… son George, Baron Rivers (d. 1828), whose nephew William Beckford inherited the estate and title and took the surname …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the villages in the parish after Bishop's Cleeve itself. Beckford and Bishop's Cleeve area, 1964 Southam, which was so … as is likely on tenurial grounds, and was not Saberton in Beckford as stated in Finberg, loc. cit., and repeated in …