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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
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).
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