NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Beadon, Richard, 1737-1824 DNB: Beadon, Richard (1737–1824), bishop of Bath and Wells LBT ID: RiBeado1824 VIAF ID: 19533351 LOC ID: nr91010782 | B/BAP: 1737-04-15 DIED: 1824-04-21 |
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Educated at Blundell's School and St John's College, Cambridge, he was public orator of
the university (1768-78), master of Jesus College (1781), bishop of Gloucester (1789), and
bishop of Bath and Wells (1802). | |