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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?]
- William Thomas Beckford
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 ...
- English
- 29 September 1760, Soho Square, London, England
- Writer, art collector, politician
- 2 May 1844 (aged 83), Bath, Somerset, England
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Below is the article summary. For the full article, see William Beckford . William Beckford, (born Sept. 29, 1760, London, Eng.—died May 2, 1844, Bath, Somerset), English dilettante, novelist, and eccentric. He is remembered for his gothic novel Vathek (1786), about an impious voluptuary who builds a ...
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 ...
William Beckford: A Bibliography provides an annotated listing of all known publications of his works, with many contemporary reviews. His novel Vathek, has been published in some 165 editions in twenty languages since the first unauthorised edition of 1786.
