Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
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BEVAN, CHARLES DACRES (_son of Charles Bevan, Lieut. col. 4 Foot who
d. 12 July 1811_). _b._ 7 Nov. 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Ball.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 21 May 1830;
recorder of Dartmouth 1845–55, of Truro 1848–49, of Falmouth
1850–56, of Helston 1850–56 and of Penzance Dec. 1855 to Jany.
1857; judge of county courts for Cornwall (circuit 59) 22 Jany.
1857 to death. _d._ near Fowey, Cornwall 24 June 1872.
BEVAN, EDWARD. _b._ London 8 July 1770; apprenticed to a surgeon at
Hereford; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.D. St. Andrews
1818; physician at Mortlake 5 years, at Stoke-upon-Trent, at
Congleton 12 years and at Mortlake again 2 years; lived at
Bridstow near Ross, then at Hereford 1849 to death; one of
founders of Entomological Society 1833; author of _The Honey-Bee,
its natural history, physiology and management_ 1827, _3 ed._
1870, which was the best book on the subject; _Hints on the
history and management of the Honey-Bee_ 1851. _d._ Hereford 31
Jany. 1860. _The Naturalist, ed. by Neville Wood iv_, 142–46
(1838), _portrait_.
BEVAN, HANNAH MARISHALL (_dau. of Wm. Bevan of London, tea
merchant_). _b._ London 1 Feb. 1798; joined the Newgate prison
committee; worked with Elizabeth Fry and others; a minister of
Society of Friends 1828. (_m._ 1827 Thomas Bevan, M.D. who _d._
1847 aged 43). _d._ Penge 8 Nov. 1874. _Annual Monitor for 1876
pp._ 3–19.
BEVAN, PHILIP. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., M.A. and M.B. 1843, M.D.
1845; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1837; lecturer on anatomy Dublin School of
medicine; surgeon to Mercers hospital to about 1870; M.R.I.A. 13
April 1846; professor of practical anatomy Royal college of
surgeons to death. _d._ 33 Pembroke road, Dublin 6 Dec. 1881.
BEVAN, VENERABLE THOMAS. Ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1828; V. of St. Peter’s, Carmarthen 1833 to death; archdeacon of
St. David’s 11 June 1833 to death; preb. of Brecon 1853 to death.
_d._ 28 Dec. 1863 aged 63.
BEVERIDGE, THOMAS. _b._ Dunfermline 7 Oct. 1775; deputy clerk in the
court of session, Edinburgh; author of _A practical treatise on
the forms of process containing the new regulation before the
Court of Session ... 2 vols._ 1826; _A guide to the judicial
records of the court of session_ 1852. _d._ near Edinburgh 27 May
1858.
BEVERLEY, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ Fort Augustus, Scotland Aug. 1788;
assistant surgeon R.N. 1810; served in Sir Edward Parry’s first
Arctic expedition 1819–20; went with him to Spitzbergen as surgeon
and naturalist 1827; practised in London; F.R.S. 5 May 1831. _d._
Derman Terrace, Great Yarmouth 16 Sep. 1868.
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