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William Wither Bramston Beach
(1826-1901), Conservative politician; MP for Hampshire and AndoverSitter in 1 portrait
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Dr James W Daniel
31 December 2017, 13:01
The Rt Hon W W B Beach, MP, for a Hampshire constituency from his election in 1857 (while he was still in Canada, until his death in 1901. He died as 'Father of the House' (of Commons) and a member of the Privy Council. A major landowner in Hampshire his principal seat was Oakley Hall, near Basingstoke. An active Freemason from the time of his initiation in the Apollo University Lodge while at Oxford he was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mark Masons in 1866 and from 1869 till his death he served as the United Grand Lodge's Provincial Grand Master for Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Beach was also Vice Chairman of the South-Western Railway Company. Other portraits of him can be found at Mark Masons' Hall, St James's Street, London and in the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, Great Queen Street, London.