William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844)
English novelist and aesthete, son of the Jamaica planter and Lord Mayor William Beckford
(1709-1770), author of Vathek: An Arabian Tale, surreptitiously
translated and published in 1786. He was MP for Wells (1784-90) and Hindon (1790-94,
1806-20).
English novelist and aesthete, son of the Jamaica planter and Lord Mayor William Beckford
(1709-1770), author of Vathek: An Arabian Tale, surreptitiously
translated and published in 1786. He was MP for Wells (1784-90) and Hindon (1790-94,
1806-20).