BEHNES, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1794; learnt drawing in Dublin; gained 3 silver medals at Royal Academy; a _portrait_ draughtsman in London, afterwards a sculptor; executed busts of many of the most eminent men of his time; executed statues of Lady Godiva 1844, Europa 1848 and The startled nymph 1849; exhibited 215 sculptures at the R.A. 1815–63; bankrupt on his own petition 25 Nov. 1861. _d._ Middlesex hospital London 8 Jany. 1864. _Cornhill Mag. ix_, 688–701 (1864); _Lectures on art by Henry Weeks_ (1880) 294–317; _W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 99–102. BEHRENS, LOUIS. _b._ Hamburg 1801; joined his brother Jacob in business as merchants at Bradford 1836; founded a business in Manchester 1840; established it as a separate concern 1870. _d._ Southport 1 June 1884. BEKE, CHARLES TILSTONE (_son of James Beck, of Hackney, London, commissioner of sewers_). _b._ Stepney, London 10 Oct. 1800; student at Lincoln’s Inn; changed spelling of his name from Beck to Beke 1834; acting consul at Leipzig 1837–38; Ph. Doc. Univ. of Tubingen 6 Aug. 1837; travelled in Abyssinia 1840–43 and 1865–66; received gold medals of Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris 1845 and 1846; sec. to National Association for protection of industry and capital throughout British empire 1849–53, when association was dissolved; granted a civil list pension of £100 14 Dec. 1870; went to Palestine to determine position of Mount Sinai Dec. 1873; F.S.A. 1835; author of _Origines Biblicæ_ 1834; _The sources of the Nile_ 1860; _The British captives in Abyssinia_ 1865; _The idol in Horeb_ 1871 and other books. _d._ Bromley, Kent 31 July 1874. _Summary of the late Dr. Beke’s published works and of his inadequately requited public services By his widow_ 1876; _Dictionary of national biography iv_, 138–41 (1885); _I.L.N. lxv_, 140 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 174 (1874), _portrait_.