William Frederick Beadon
(1808-1862), MagistrateSitter in 1 portrait
by Camille Silvy
albumen print, 12 October 1861
NPG Ax55984
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David Victor
08 November 2017, 09:56
W F Beadon was the son of Capt. Richard Beadon and the grandson of Bishop Richard Beadon, Bishop of Wells. Between them they purchased the manor of Wiveliscombe & Fitzhead, in Somerset, from the Bishopric. W F B and his father then merged it with the Manor of Preston Bowyer they had purchased from Lord Somerville and other estates he had inherited from his great-uncle, Canon Southey. The whole was then sold to Alexander, first Lord Ashburton.
There is also a nice story about Beadon, as a Magistrate, told in "Crime & the Craft: Masonic involvement in Crime, Treason and Scandal" by Mike Neville.