William Thomas Beckford

(1760-1844)

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
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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).
REFERENCES TO William Thomas Beckford: Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 16 July 1809 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 9 January 1823 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 7 [William Maginn?], “My Wedding Night: The obnoxious Chapter in Lord Byron’s Memoirs” in The John Bull Magazine, and Literary Recorder 1 (July 1824) 19-21 Found 1: ¶ 7 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1818 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) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1822-23 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: Bernard Barton Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ n1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XV Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter IX. Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 102 Chapter V. Found 33: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 18 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 26 ¶ 31 ¶ 32 ¶ 35 ¶ 38 ¶ 40 ¶ 44 ¶ 45 ¶ 46 ¶ 48 ¶ 58 ¶ 63 ¶ 67 ¶ 75 ¶ 77 ¶ 79 ¶ 80 ¶ 82 ¶ 86 ¶ 89 ¶ 91 ¶ 97 ¶ 103 ¶ 104 ¶ 105 ¶ 106 ¶ 107 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 37 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 1 Found 1: ¶ 57 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter V Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 35 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. IX 1823 Found 1: ¶ 18 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VIII. 1811. Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1816-1818. Found 1: ¶ 50 Chapter VIII. 1818-19. Found 1: ¶ 10 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXI. Found 1: ¶ 47 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) I. Byron Characteristics Found 1: ¶ 40