Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett | |
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Born | London, England | 9 January 1811
Died | 30 August 1856 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France | (aged 45)
Resting place | Highgate Cemetery |
Nationality | English |
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, humorist writer |
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (9 January 1811 – 30 August 1856) was an English humorist.[1]
Biography
He was born in London, the son of solicitor William à Beckett, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas Becket. He was educated at Westminster School and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1841.[2]
He edited the comic paper
As poor-law commissioner he presented a valuable report to the Home Secretary regarding the Andover workhouse scandal,[2] and in 1849 he became a metropolitan police magistrate.[4]
He died in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, of typhoid fever and is buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery[5] (plot no.7604), above and to the far left of the colonnade in the courtyard.
His elder brother, Sir
He was the father of two other Victorian writers, Gilbert Arthur à Beckett and Arthur William à Beckett.[2]
Works
- The King Incog (1834)
- The Revolt of The Work-House (1834)
- The Man With the Carpet Bag (1835)
- Posthumous Papers of the Wonderful Discovery Club (1838) (written as POZ)
- The Chimes (1844) (with Mark Lemon)
- Scenes from the Rejected Comedies (1844)
- Hop O' My Thumb (1844) (written as POZ)
- Comic Blackstone (1844)
- Timour; or, The Cream of Tartar (1845)
- The Comic History of England (1847–48)
- The Comic History of Rome (1851)
- Sardanapalus; or, The 'Fast' King of Assyria (1853)
- The Fiddle Faddle Fashion Book (written as POZ)
Source:[6]
References
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 31.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
- ^ The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 6th Edition. Edited by Margaret Drabble, Oxford University Press, 2000 p.2
- ISBN 0-550-18022-2, page 3
- ^ Cansick, Frederick Teague (1872). The Monumental Inscriptions of Middlesex Vol 2. J Russell Smith. p. 91. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 38. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Works by Gilbert Abbott À Becket at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Gilbert Abbott à Beckett at Internet Archive
- "Punch, or, The London Charivari, 1841", Science in the 19th Century Periodical
- "The comic history of England". Colour engravings by John Leech with text by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett. BibliOdyssey
- À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott & Leech, John. The comic history of England, London : Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., [1864]
- À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott & Leech, John. The comic history of England, London : George Routledge, New York : E. P. Dutton, [1894]
- Portraits of Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett at the National Portrait Gallery, London