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BEOTHY, ODON (1796-18J4)

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BEOTHY, ODON (1796-18J4) , Hungarian See also:deputy and orator, was See also:born at Grosswardein, his See also:father being a retired officer and deputy See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of the See also:county of Bihar. At the See also:age of sixteen he served in the See also:war against See also:Napoleon, and was See also:present at the See also:great See also:battle of See also:Leipzig. Like so many others of his compatriots, he picked up Liberal ideas abroad. He was sent to See also:parliament by his county in 1826 and again in 183o, but did not become generally known till the session of 1832-1836, when along with See also:Deak he, as a liberal See also:Catholic, defended the See also:Protestant point of view in " the mixed marriages question." He was also an energetic See also:advocate of freedom of speech. After parliament See also:rose he carried his principles to their logical conclusion by marrying a Protestant See also:lady and, being denied a blessing on the occasion by an indignant See also:bishop, publicly declared that he could very well dispense with such blessings. In 1841 he was elected deputy lord-lieutenant of his county to counteract the See also:influence of the lord-lieutenant, Lajos See also:Tisza, and powerfully promoted the popular cause by his eloquence and agitation. After 1843 the conservatives succeeded in excluding him both from parliament and from his See also:official position in the county; but during the famous " See also:March Days " (1848) he regained all his authority, becoming at the same See also:time a See also:commander of See also:militia, a deputy and lord-lieutenant. At the first session of the Upper See also:House (5th of See also:July 1848), he moved that it should be radically reformed, and during the war of See also:Independence he energetically served the Hungarian See also:government as a See also:civil See also:commissioner and lord See also:justice. Towards the end of the war he reappeared as a deputy at the See also:Szeged See also:diet, and on the See also:flight of the government took See also:refuge first with See also:Richard See also:Cobden in See also:London and subsequently in See also:Jersey, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Victor See also:Hugo. Thence he went to See also:Hamburg, to meet his wife, and died there on the 7th of See also:December 1854. Beothy was a See also:man of extraordinary ability and See also:character, and an excellent debater. He also exercised as much influence socially over his contemporaries as politically, owing to his unfailing tact and pleasant wit.

See Antal Cscngery, Hungarian Orators and Statesmen (Hung., See also:

Budapest, 1851). (R. N.

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