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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 NRA: Beckford, William (1760-1844) Author MP Art Collector DNB: Beckford, William Thomas (1760-1844), writer and art collector LBT ID: WiBeckf1844 VIAF ID: 4926466 LOC ID: n78095665 | B/BAP: 1760-09-29 DIED: 1844-05-02 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
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). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF William Thomas Beckford: William Beckford to Samuel Rogers, 17 October 1817 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) William Beckford to Cyrus Redding, 16 September 1835 in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) William Beckford to Cyrus Redding, [February 1836?] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) | |
