BETTRIDGE, REV. WILLIAM CRADDOCK. _b._ 30 Aug. 1791; ensign 81 Foot 7 April 1813; lieutenant 31 Aug. 1815 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; town major of Brussels 1815; entered Univ. of Jena Saxony 1818; walked from Jena to Naples; entered Neapolitan army 1822; aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Church 1822; accorded by Government a continuance for life of his half pay by a special mandamus; studied at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1837; ordained deacon 1824; C. of Elvington near York 1824; C. of Ecclesfield 1828; Inc. of St. Paul’s, Southampton 1828–34; R. of Woodstock, Ontario, Upper Canada 1834 to death; obtained a grant of 400 acres of land for each of the 57 rectories of Upper Canada; canon of Huron; declined bishopric of Huron 1857; author of _A brief history of the church in Upper Canada_ 1838. _d._ Woodstock 21 Nov. 1879. BETTS, EDWARD LADD (_eld. son of Wm. Betts of Sandown, Kent_). _b._ Buckland near Dover 5 June 1815; constructed Midland railway from Rugby to Leicester and many other lines; partner with Sir S. M. Peto; constructed the line from Balaclava to English camp before Sebastopol; constructed with Brassey the grand trunk railway of Canada including Victoria tubular bridge, and with Crampton the London, Chatham and Dover railway; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1851 and 1852; sheriff of Kent 1858; contested Maidstone 1865; A.I.C.E. 26 June 1849. _d._ Assouan, Upper Egypt 21 Jany. 1872. _bur._ at Aylesford, Kent. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi_, 285–88 (1873); _I.L.N. lx_, 187, 207, 611 (1872) BETTY, WILLIAM HENRY WEST (_only child of William Henry Betty, M.D. of Lisburn, Ireland who d. 1811_). _b._ Shrewsbury 13 Sep. 1791; made his début at Belfast theatre 16 Aug. 1803 as Osman in tragedy of _Zara_, and at Crow st. theatre Dublin 29 Nov. 1803 as Douglas; engaged at Covent Garden for 12 nights at £50 per night and a clear benefit, and at Drury Lane on intervening nights on same terms 1 Dec. 1804, after 3 nights his salary was raised to £100 per night; known as the young Roscius; fellow commoner of Christ’s college, Cambridge July 1808 to 1811; returned to the stage 1812 when he failed to draw; made his last appearance in London June 1813; took his farewell benefit at Southampton 9 Aug, 1824. _d._ 37, Ampthill sq. London 24 Aug. 1874. _Roscius in London Biographical Memoirs of W. H. W. Betty_ 1805, _portrait_; _Tinsley’s Mag. xv_, 415–23 (1874); _Temple Bar xlii_, 346–61 (1874); _Theatrical Inquisitor xii_, 227 (1818), _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 227 (1874), _portrait_; _The dawn of the 19th century in England by J. Ashton ii_, 118–29 (1886), _portrait_.