Thomas Alcock Beck

Thomas Alcock Beck (1795–1846) was the author of 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 was to use 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 invalid chair.[3] Besides other antiquarian interests, he also edited Dr. William Close's unfinished work An Itinerary of Furness.

Thomas Alcock Beck
Born(1795-05-31)31 May 1795
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Died26 April 1846(1846-04-26) (aged 50)[1]
Esthwaite Lodge, Hawkshead,[2] England
Known forAuthor of Annales Furnesienses

Marriage

On 25 April 1838 he married Elizabeth Fell of Hawkshead[4] (formerly of Ulverston), having obtained a special licence to allow the ceremony to take place within his own home.[5]

References
  1. http://www.hawksheadbenefice.co.uk/inscriptions.pdf
  2. http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/hawkshead_f.html
  3. Thomas Alcock Beck: article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition available by subscription, retrieved 4 December 2013
  4. http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Hawkshead/stmichael/marriages_1837-1864.html
  5. Original Hawkshead parish register, deposited with Cumbria Archive Service, Kendal.


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