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William Beckford
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Standard Name: Beckford, William,, 1709 - 1770
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| Birth | William Beckford | WB
, gothicist, was born in Soho Square, Soho, London, the only legitimate offspring of a father
with at least eight illegitimate children. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | William Beckford | His father, also William Beckford
, was an immensely wealthy sugar-planter born in Jamaica, who married at forty-seven. He combined being a colonial slave owner of great wealth with being also . .... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Hervey | Her stepfather, William Beckford
, was, like her biological father, extremely wealthy and a slave-owner. Remarkably in these circumstances, he was also a prominent radical in politics. He died in 1780. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
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