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Beckwith, North Yorkshire Beckwith is a small settlement in North Yorkshire, England. It lies south west of Harrogate. The place name was first recorded in about 972 as ''bec wudu'', Old English for "beech wood". The place was historically a hamlet in the ancient par ...

, England, United Kingdom *

Beckwith, Ontario Beckwith is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located in Lanark County on the Mississippi River. It is located within Canada's National Capital Region. The township, named after Sir Thomas Sydney Beckwith, was surveyed in 1816 and ...

, township in eastern Ontario, Canada * Beckwith, California, former name of

Beckwourth, California Beckwourth (formerly, Beckwith and Beekwith) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California, United States. Beckwourth is located on the Middle Fork Feather River east of Portola. The population was 478 at the 2020 census. Nam ...

, United States *

Beckwith, West Virginia Beckwith is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Beckwith is located on West Virginia Route 16 and Laurel Creek, northwest of Fayetteville. Beckwith had a post office A post office is a public faci ...

, United States

People

Beckwith baronets The Beckwith Baronetcy, of Aldborough in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 April 1681 for Roger Beckwith. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Yorkshire between 1706 and 1707. The third Baronet ...

, an English title from 1681 to 1796 * Abijah Beckwith (New York politician) (1785–1874), New York politician * Abijah Beckwith (Wisconsin politician) (1843–1897), Wisconsin politician *

Andrew Beckwith Andrew Beckwith (born March 22, 1995) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Career Beckwith attended Blythewood High School in Blythewood, South Carolina, prior to enrolling at Coastal Carolina University. In 2016, he was named th ...

(born 1995), American baseball player * Asahel C. Beckwith (1827–1896), Wyoming senator * Athelstan Beckwith (1930–2010), Australian chemist * Bob Beckwith (1932–2024), American firefighter *

Carol Beckwith Carol Beckwith (born July 10, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with the Australian photographer Angela Fisher. ...

, photographer * Charles Beckwith (disambiguation) *

Christopher Beckwith Christopher I. Beckwith (born October 23, 1945) is an American philologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese from Ohio Stat ...

(born 1945), American linguist and historian *

Clarence Beckwith Clarence Augustine Beckwith (Charlemont, Massachusetts, July 21, 1849 – 1931) was an American theologian and writer. He was a teacher at the United Church of Christ's Chicago Theological Seminary The Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) is a C ...

(1849–1931), American theologian * Cora Jipson Beckwith (1875–1955), American zoologist *

Corydon Beckwith Corydon Beckwith (July 24, 1823 – August 18, 1890) was an American jurist and lawyer. Born in Caledonia County, Vermont, Beckwith studied law in St. Albans, Vermont and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1844. In 1846, Beckwith was admitted t ...

(1823–1890), American jurist and lawyer * Darry Beckwith (born 1987), American footballer *

Dean Beckwith Dean Stuart Beckwith (born 18 September 1983) is an English former semi-professional footballer who played as a central defender. He is assistant manager of AFC Croydon Athletic. Career Early career Beckwith was born in Southwark, London and ca ...

(born 1983), English footballer * Denise Beckwith (born 1977), Australian swimmer *

Edward Griffin Beckwith Edward Griffin Beckwith (June 25, 1818 – June 22, 1881) was a United States Army officer who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and who conducted one of the Pacific Railroad Surveys in the 1850s and became known as the ...

(1818–1881), conducted one of the Pacific Railroad Surveys * Emma Beckwith (1849–1919), American suffragette, bookkeeper, optician and inventor *

Francis J. Beckwith Francis J. "Frank" Beckwith (born November 3, 1960) is an American philosopher, professor, scholar, speaker, writer, and lecturer. He is currently professor of philosophy and church-state studies, affiliate professor of political science and a ...

(born 1960), legal scholar * Frank R. Beckwith (1904–1965), American lawyer and civil rights activist * Henry L. P. Beckwith Jr. (born 1935), American author * Holmes Beckwith, American political scientist *

George Beckwith (British Army officer) General Sir George Beckwith GCB (1753 – 20 March 1823) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as governor of Barbados from 1810 to 1815. Military career Beckwith was commissioned into the 37th Regiment of Foot in 17 ...

(1753–1823) * George Beckwith (Carl Jung associate) (1896–1931), American patient and associate of Carl Jung * Gladys Beckwith (1929–2020), American women's studies academic * Holmes Beckwith (1884–1921), American academic * J. Bruce Beckwith (1933–2025), American pediatric pathologist *

James Carroll Beckwith James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American Landscape art, landscape, Portrait painter, portrait and Genre works, genre painter whose Realism (arts), Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late ninetee ...

(1852–1917), American portrait painter * James R. Beckwith (1857–1935), American politician * James P. Beckwith, better known as

James Beckwourth James Pierson Beckwourth (April 26, 1798/1800 – October 20, 1866) was an American fur trapper, rancher, businessman, explorer, author and scout. Known as "Bloody Arm" because of his skill as a fighter, Beckwourth was of multiracial descent, b ...

(1800−1866), trapper, Indian chief, fur trader, scout * Jefferson H. Beckwith (1813–1865), American politician * Joe Beckwith (1955–2021), American baseball player * John Beckwith (disambiguation) *

Jon Beckwith Jonathan Roger Beckwith (born December 25, 1935, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American microbiologist and geneticist. He is the American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School ...

(born 1935), American microbiologist * Josiah Beckwith (1734–?), English antiquary * Julia Catherine Beckwith (1796–1867), Canadian novelist * Kendell Beckwith (born 1994), American football player *

Lillian Beckwith Lillian Beckwith (25 April 1916 – 3 January 2004), real name Lillian Comber, was an English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Outer Hebrides. Born Lilian Lloyd in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, she married E ...

, English author * Mark M. Beckwith, American bishop *

Martha Warren Beckwith Martha Warren Beckwith (January 19, 1871 – January 28, 1959) was an American folklorist and ethnographer who was the first chair in folklore at any university or college in the U.S. Early life and education Beckwith was born in Wellesley Hei ...

(1871–1959), American folklorist *

Mary Lincoln Beckwith Mary Lincoln Beckwith (August 22, 1898 – July 10, 1975) was a prominent descendant of Abraham Lincoln. Beckwith was the great-granddaughter and one of the last two confirmed descendants of Abraham Lincoln, along with her younger brother Rob ...

(1898–1975), great-granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln * Mayhew Beckwith (1798–1871), Canadian merchant and politician *

Michael Beckwith Michael Bernard Beckwith (born July 21, 1956) is a New Thought minister, author, and founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Beverly Hills, California. Career Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director o ...

, New Thought minister *

Naomi Beckwith Naomi Beckwith (born 1976) is an American art historian who has been serving as the deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum since 2021. Previously she had been the senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ch ...

(born 1976), American curator *

Reginald Beckwith William Reginald Beckwith (2 November 190826 June 1965) was an English film and television actor, who made over one hundred film and television appearances in his career. He died of a heart attack aged 56. Beckwith was also a film critic and ...

(1908–1965), English actor *

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (July 19, 1904 – December 24, 1985) was an American gentleman farmer and the great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. In 1975, he became the last known undisputed legal descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary L ...

(1904–1985), great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln *

Roger Beckwith (disambiguation) Roger Beckwith may refer to: * Sir Roger Beckwith (died 1700), 1st Beckwith baronet * Sir Roger Beckwith (1682-1743), 2nd Beckwith baronet and High Sheriff of Yorkshire * Wilhelm von Brincken (also known as Roger Beckwith) German diplomat and sp ...

** Sir Roger Beckwith (died 1700), 1st Beckwith baronet ** Sir Roger Beckwith (1682–1743), 2nd Beckwith baronet who also served as the

High Sheriff of Yorkshire The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere o ...

Roger Beckwith (actor) Wilhelm von Brincken (May 27, 1881 – January 18, 1946), also known as Wilhelm L. von Brincken, William Vaughn, William von Brinken, and William Vaughan, was a German diplomat and spy during World War I, who went on to become an American charac ...

(born Wilhelm von Brincken) (1881–1946), German diplomat and spy who later became an American actor **

Roger T. Beckwith Roger Thomas Beckwith was an English church historian and liturgist who served from 1973 to 1994 as the Warden of Latimer House, Oxford. Among his works were Priesthood and Sacraments', Elders in Every City: The Origin and Role of the Ordained Min ...

(1929–2023), English church historian and liturgist *

Sandra Beckwith Sandra Lea Shank Beckwith, also known as Sandra L. Ammann, (born December 4, 1943) is a senior United States District Judge, the first woman to sit on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Education and career Beck ...

(born 1943), American judge * Stephen Beckwith (1623–?), founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut *

Tamara Beckwith Tamara Camilla Jane Beckwith (born 17 April 1970) is an English socialite and television personality. In the 1990s, she was regarded as one of the "It girls" of the London social scene. Early life The daughter of property developer Peter Beckw ...

(born 1970), English socialite *

Thomas Beckwith Thomas Beckwith FSA (10 February 1731 – 17 February 1786) was an English painter, genealogist and antiquary. Life and work Beckwith was born at Rothwell, West Yorkshire, the son of a West Riding solicitor, and brother of Josiah Beckwith (b ...

(1731–1786), English painter *

Thomas Sydney Beckwith Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Sydney Beckwith (17 February 177015 January 1831) was a British Army officer who served as quartermaster general of the British forces in Canada during the War of 1812, and a commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army ...

(1775–1831), British army officer * Wally Beckwith (1893–1983), Australian runner and footballer *

Warren Wallace Beckwith Warren Wallace Beckwith Sr. (August 10, 1874 – September 24, 1955) was an American sportsman who served as a minor league baseball player during the late 1800s. His first wife was Jessie Harlan Lincoln, a member of the Lincoln family and grandd ...

, Lincoln family member * William Beckwith (1795–1871), English Army officer

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* Beckwith Company, American book publisher * Beckwith Island, Ontario, Canada

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