Alfred Goodwin

“ Going to Ireland with Lord Harrington, the father became rector of Navan in 1747, was provost and archdeacon of Tuam from 1753 to 1758, was rector of Clonenagh from 1758 until his death thirty years later, and published in English, in 1788, 'A Short Account of the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome, divested of all Controversy.' His brother, Louis de Beaufort, published (in 1738) a work on the uncertainty of Roman history, supposed to have given some suggestions to Niebuhr.
Daniel Augustus was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was elected a scholar in 1757. ”

“ BECKFORD, WILLIAM (d. 1799) , historian, passed a great part of his life in Jamaica, where he made observations on the country and particularly on the condition of the negroes. On returning to England he settled at Somerley Hall in Suffolk, and died in London on 5 Feb. ”

“ The prince regent accepted from him his father's bust, and remarked that ‘it was curious for the father to be the best judge of music and the son the best Greek critic in the kingdom’ (Mme. d'Arblay, Memoirs of Dr. Burney) . He died of apoplexy at Deptford, on 28 Dec. 1817.
Burney commenced his career as a classical critic about 1783, by writing articles in the ‘Monthly Review,’ which had been founded by Rose in conjunction with Cleveland. Burney's connection with this periodical lasted for about three years. His most important contribution was an attack on the ‘Monostrophica’ of Huntingford. ”

“ BEKINSAU, JOHN (1496?–1559) , scholar and divine, was born at Broadchalke, in Wiltshire, about 1496. His father, John Bekinsau, of Hartley Wespell, Hampshire, is supposed to have belonged to the Lancashire family of Becconsall (Tanner) ; but Hoare (Hist. of Wilts, iv. 153) argues that there was a family of the name native in Wiltshire.
Bekinsau was educated at Winchester School, and proceeded to New College, Oxford ”

“ The vicar of Bunbury till the year 1629 was William Hinde, a celebrated puritan and biographer of John Bruen of Stapleford. Barlow, who has inserted Burghall/s ‘Diary’ in his ‘Cheshire,’ states that Burghall was the author of Bruen's life (Barlow, Cheshire, p. 150) . But there is no mention of Burghall either on the title-page of Bruen's life or in the work itself. ”

“ In a letter to Parker, 27 Feb. 1564, he disapproves of dramatic representations among the students (Fuller's Cambridge, 266) . On 26 Nov. 1565 Beaumont with Kelk, master of Magdalen, Hutton, master of Pembroke, Longworth, master of St. John's, and Whitgift, then Margaret professor, wrote to Cecil as chancellor of the university for a remission in the orders just issued by the queen through Parker for enforcing the use of the surplice at Cambridge. Cecil was angry and Parker contemptuous (Strype's Life of Parker, i. 386, letter in the appendix) ”

“ After an illness of eight months Battel was sent by the governor of Loanda, Hurtado de Mendoça, to Zaire, on the Congo, in a pinnace to collect ivory, wheat, and palm-tree oil. He was successful, and continued to trade for the Portuguese at Longo, but, attempting to escape on a Dutch vessel, he was thrown into prison for two months and then banished to Massangano in the interior, where he spent six years. After another abortive flight and consequent imprisonment, he was enrolled in a mixed force of Portuguese and natives and sent on an expedition to Elambo. ”

“ Before the civil war he was schoolmaster at Bunbury in Cheshire, and was probably appointed to the post about 1632 (Diary, 12 May 1632, ‘Mr. Cole, schoolmaster of Bunbury, departed this life') . As early as 1556 the name of Burghall is connected with Bunbury, a William Burghall being on the list of pensioners of the chauntry of Bunbury dissolved in 1546 (Ormerod Chesire, ii. 140) . The parish school at Bunbury, of which Burghall was master, was founded in 1594, and was endowed with ‘£20 per annum, one house and some land' (ib, 141) . ”

“ He also intended to publish a collection of the rules and orders of the Charterhouse, but was prevented by the governors, some extracts only being printed in a quarto pamphlet and distributed among the officers of the house (Gough, British Topography, i. 691) . From his account of Sutton, Smythe's historical account of the Charterhouse was largely derived. In Nichols's 'Bowyer' Bearcroft is spoken of as 'a worthy man, but with no great talents for writing.' Some of his sermons were published both before and after his death. He died on 17 Oct. ”

“ He is best known as the promoter of harvest homes for country districts in 1854. At Norwich he was vice-president of the People's College, and corresponding member of the Working Men's Congregational Union. ”

“ A Latin poem on the death of the two Dukes of Suffolk (1552) . 'Thebais, a tragedy.' A poem in English on Peterson's 'Galateo' (1576) (v. Ames, ii. 903) . Wood (Athenæ, ii. 130) mentions verses by a Thomas Browne, prebendary of Westminster, in Twyne's translation of Humphrey Lloyd's 'Breviary of Britain.' Prefixed to a sermon by Richard Curteys, bishop of Chichester, preached before the queen at Greenwich in 1573-4, there is a 'Preface,' written according to the title-page by one T.B., and signed 'Thomas Browne B.D. at Westminster.' This is probably the work of the man under notice. ”

“ He subscribed to the articles of 1562, and, both by signing a request to the synod concerning rites and ceremonies, and by voting with the minority in convocation for the six articles on discipline, he supported the anti-ritualistic side in the church (Strype, Ann. 1. i. 480, 501, 504, 512) . ”

“ Here, by virtue of his shooting, he gained the goodwill of the king. At this point the narrative ends with a full description of the different regions of Longo, their natural features, and the customs of the negroes. ”

“ When the Act of Uniformity was passed, Durghall, after preaching farewell sermons at his churches of Wrenbury and Acton, was on 3 Oct. 1662 suspended from the vicarage of Acton, and on the 28th his successor Kirks was appointed. ”

“ On his death his representatives, to prevent the dispersal of these treasures and to provide for his family, suggested to parliament that the whole should be bought for the use of the nation. A committee recommended its purchase at 14,000l. ”

“ Blithe were submitted for the provostship in a scheme sent by Whitgift to the queen (Strype, Whitgift, i. 337) , but the scheme fell through, and Browne died in the following year (1586) on 2 May (Le Neve, iii. 350) . ”

“ BREWSTER, THOMAS, M.D. (b. 1705) , translator, was the son of Benjamin Brewster of Eardisland, Herefordshire, and was born on 18 Sept. 1705. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and thence elected to St. ”

“ Their younger son was Sir Francis Beaufort [q. v.] .
[Information from W. M. Beaufort, Esq.; Times, 18 June 1821; Gent. Mag. vol ix.; Cotton's Fasti Hibernici; Monthly Review, xiii. 173; Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography.] ”