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See also:BECKFORD, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1760–1844) , See also:English author, son of See also:Alderman William Beckford (17.o9–177o), was See also:born on the 1st of See also:October 176o. His See also:father was See also:lord See also:mayor of See also:London in 1762 and again in 1769; he was a famous supporter of See also:John Wilkes, and on his See also:monument in the See also:Guildhall were afterwards inscribed the words of his manly and outspoken reproof to See also:George III. on the occasion of the See also:City of London address to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in 1770. At the See also:age of eleven See also:young Beckford inherited a princely See also:fortune from his father. He married See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:Gordon in 1783, and spent his brief married See also:life in See also:Switzerland. After his wife's See also:death (1786) he travelled in See also:Spain and See also:Portugal, and wrote his Portuguese Letters (published 1834, 1835), which See also:rank with his best See also:work. He afterwards returned to See also:England, and after selling his old See also:house, Fonthill See also:Abbey, See also:Wiltshire, began to build a magnificent See also:residence there, on which he expended in about eighteen years the sum of £273,000. His eccentricities, together with the strict seclusion in which he lived, gave rise tc See also:scandal, probably unjustified. In 1822 he sold his house, together with its splendid library and pictures, to John See also:Farquhar, and soon after one of the towers, 26o ft. high, See also:fell, destroying See also:part of the See also:villa in the ruins. Beckford erected another lofty structure on See also:Lansdowne See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, near See also:Bath, where he continued to reside till his death in 1844. His first work, See also:Biographical See also:Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (178o) was a slight, sarcastic jeu d'esprit. In 1782 he wrote in See also:French his See also:oriental See also:romance, The See also:History of the See also:Caliph Vathek, which appeared in English, translated by the Rev. See also:Samuel See also:Henley, in 1786 and has taken its See also:place as one of the finest productions of luxuriant See also:imagination.
Beckford's See also:wealth and large See also:expenditure, his position as a See also:collector and See also:patron of letters (he bought See also:Gibbon's library at See also:Lausanne), his See also:literary See also:industry, and his reputation as author of Vathek, make him an interesting figure in literary history. He had a seat in See also:parliament from 1784 to 1793, and again from 18o6 to 1820. He See also:left two daughters, the eldest of whom was married to the loth See also:duke of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton.
See also:Cyrus Redding's Memoir (1859) is the only full See also:biography, but prolix; see Dr R. See also:Garnett's introduction to his edition of Vathek (1893).
End of Article: BECKFORD, WILLIAM (1760–1844)
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