BEARD, REV. JOHN RELLY. _b._ Southsea, Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1800; ed. at Unitarian college, York; minister at Salford, Manchester 1825; kept a school at Salford 1826; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1838; minister at Strangeways, Manchester 1848–64; started a scheme for educating young men for home missions, which originated Unitarian home missionary board or college, of which he was the first principal; minister at Sale near Ashton-on-Mersey 1865–73; the first editor of the _Christian Teacher_ 1835; started the _Unitarian Herald_; author of _Voices of the church in reply to Dr. Strauss_ 1845; _Historical and Artistic illustrations of the Trinity_ 1846; _Illustrations of the divine in Christianity_ 1849; _Latin dictionary_ 1854; _Christ the interpreter of scripture_ 1865; _Christian evidence, an antidote to materialism_ 1868; _Autobiography of Satan_ 1872. _d._ Ashton upon Mersey 21 Nov. 1876. _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 13–17. BEARD, WILLIAM (_son of a farmer at Banwell, Somerset_). _b._ Banwell 24 April 1772; a small farmer; dug out a cavern in Banwell hill and found many bones of the bear, buffalo, reindeer and wolf about 1826; let his land and spent all his time searching for bones; his collection of bones was bought by the Somersetshire Archæological and natural history society and is now in the museum at Taunton Castle. _d._ Banwell 9 Jany. 1868. _J. Rutter’s Delineations of north western division of Somerset_ (1829) 147–60, _portrait_. BEARDMORE, NATHANIEL (_2 son of Joshua Beardmore of Nottingham_). _b._ Nottingham 19 March 1816; partner with James Meadows Rendel C.E. in London and Plymouth to 1848; took out a patent for piers and breakwaters 1848; one of the first hydraulic engineers; engineer to Public works loan comrs. and River Thames Conservancy board; M.I.C.E. 3 May 1842; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858; F.M.S. pres. 1861 and 1862; F.R.G.S. 1852; author of _Manual of hydrology_ 1852, _new ed._ 1867, which became the text book of the profession for hydraulic engineering. _d._ Broxbourne, Herts. 24 Aug. 1872; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi_, 256–64 (1873). BEARDMORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Greenwich 6 May 1824; partner with Wm. Rigby in the Parkhead rolling mill and forge near Glasgow 1861–71, and partner with his brother 1871 to death, these works became largest of their kind in Scotland and achieved an European reputation; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1860; inventor and patentee. _d._ Brighton 11 Oct. 1877. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 268–70 (1878). BEASLEY, JOSEPH NOBLE. _b._ 30 March 1832; lieut. col. Royal Irish Fusiliers 21 June 1880 to death. _d._ Ismaila, Egypt 20 Sep. 1882.