WB
, gothicist, was born in Soho Square, Soho, London, the only legitimate offspring of a father
with at least eight illegitimate children.
Chapman, Guy Patterson. Beckford. Jonathan Cape.
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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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
