BEATRICE, MADEMOISELLE, stage name of Marie Beatrice Binda (_dau. of Chevalier Binda, British consul at Florence_). _b._ Lucca, Italy 5 Aug. 1839; acted at Theatres de l’Odéon and Vaudeville, Paris; made her début in London under name of Lucchesini at Haymarket theatre 3 Oct. 1864; played at Lyceum theatre 1865 and in the provinces 1866–68; organised a company 1870 with which she travelled to her death; played in London summers of 1872, 74, 75 and 78; produced and acted chief parts in _Our Friends_, _The Sphinx_, _Frou-Frou_ and other translations from the French. _d._ 102 Earl’s Court road, London 22 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Père Lachaise cemetery Paris 2 Jany. 1879. _The Stage i_, 61, 63 (1874), _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 388–90. BEATSON, REV. BENJAMIN WRIGGLESWORTH (_son of Anby Beatson_). _b._ 24 Jany. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Pemb. coll. Cam., 16 wrangler 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his college 1827 to death; author of _Progressive exercises on the composition of Greek Iambic verse_ 1836, _10 ed._ 1871; _Exercises on Latin prose composition_ 1840; _Lessons in ancient history_ 1853; edited _Demosthenes’ Oration against Leptines_ 1864. _d._ Charles st. City road, London 20 July 1874. BEATSON, GEORGE STEWART (_3 son of Henry Duncan Beatson of Campbelltown, Argyleshire_). _b._ Greenock May 1814; ed. at Glasgow Univ., M.D. 1836; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1836; assistant surgeon army medical department 1838; surgeon general 1 May 1863; principal medical officer of British troops in India 1863–68 and 1871 to death; in charge of Royal Victoria hospital Netley 1868–71; honorary phys. to the Queen 13 March 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Knollswood, Simla 7 June 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_, 229 (1874), _portrait_. BEATSON, WILLIAM FERGUSON. _b._ about 1804; entered Bengal army 1820; served with British legion in Spain 1835–36; commander of the 10 regiment in Spain 13 July 1836; commanded the Nizam of Hyderabad’s division of cavalry to March 1851; organised a corps of 4000 Bashi Bazouks in Crimean war 1854–55, resigned command of the corps Sep. 1855; served in Indian mutiny 1857–58 when he raised and organised two regiments of cavalry in 6 months; M.G. 3 Oct. 1866; created a knight of San Fernando by Queen Regent of Spain. _d._ The vicarage New Swindon 4 Feb. 1872. _Nolan’s Russian war ii_, 753 (1857), _portrait_; _The war department and the Bashi Bazouks by W. F. Beatson_ 1856, _privately printed_. BEATTIE, JAMES. _b._ parish of Rayne, Scotland 27 Jany. 1781; a shoemaker at Gordonstown in Auchterless; conducted a school of from 30 to 40 pupils for 60 years for which he would never take any payment; known as “the Auchterless John Pounds” after the Portsmouth cobbler of that name who founded ragged schools and died 1839. _d._ Gordonstown July 1867.