Thomas Beckwith
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Thomas Beckwith (10 February 1731, Rothwell, West Yorkshire – 17 February 1786) was an English painter, genealogist and antiquary.
The son of a West Riding solicitor, and brother of Josiah Beckwith, Beckwith was apprenticed as a house-painter to George Fleming of Wakefield before setting up business as a painter in York. However, he "seems to have spent much of his time in forming antiquarian and genealogical collections, of which he left a great mass behind him... they were so numerous that they have found their way into almost every collection of manuscripts which has been formed during the last half century."[1] He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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- ^ Rose, H. J., A new general biographical dictionary, 12 vols, 1853.
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