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William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 – 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art critic, planter and politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner . The son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton , he served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784–1790 and ...
30 de abr. de 2024 · William Beckford was an eccentric English dilettante, author of the Gothic novel Vathek (1786). Such writers as George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Stéphane Mallarmé acknowledged his genius. He also is renowned for having built Fonthill Abbey, the most sensational building of the English Gothic Revival.
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A Sir William Beckford fought at Bosworth Field, where he is supposed to have fallen, combatting for Richard III. From the day of the battle of Bosworth Field a cloud appears to hang over a family that had struggled in behalf of the unsuccessful against the successful usurper.
William Thomas Beckford (1 de Outubro de 1760 - 2 de Maio de 1844), mais conhecido apenas por William Beckford, foi um aristocrata inglês, romancista, autor de Vathek , crítico de arte, escritor de viagens e político inglês. Foi perseguido nos últimos anos da sua vida devido à sua homossexualidade. [carece de fontes?]
17 de fev. de 2011 · William Beckford. Slave plantation owner, lord mayor, politician. William Beckford was born in Jamaica, the son of a leading sugar plantation owner who, at his death in 1735, was the...
William Beckford (baptized December 19, 1709, Jamaica, British West Indies—died June 21, 1770, London, England) was a gentleman merchant, member of Parliament, and lord mayor of London (1762–63, 1769–70) who was particularly noted as a pioneer of the radical movement.
Sir William Beckford (December 1709 – 21 June 1770) was a Jamaican-born planter and Whig politician who twice served as Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and 1769. One of the best known political figures in Georgian era London, his vast wealth derived from the sugar plantations and hundreds of slaves he owned in the British colony of ...
