Edward Anthony Beck (21 March 1848 - 12 April 1916) was a British academic in the last third of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Beck was educated at

Bishop's Stortford College Bishop's Stortford College is a private boarding and day school in the English public school tradition for more than 1,200 pupils aged 4–18, situated in a campus on the edge of the market town of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England ...

and

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, where he was to spend the rest of his career. He was

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in 1867; Chancellor's English Medallist, 1868 and 1870;

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from 1871 to 1902; Seatonian Prizeman in 1874; Assistant Tutor in 1875; Junior Tutor in 1885; Senior Tutor in 1887; and Senior proctor from 1881 to 1888, when he became Vice Master. He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from his election in November 1902 until his death; and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1904 until 1906.University web-site
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Personal life

On 30 December 1874, Beck married Emily Mary Clark with whom he later had five children. Edward Ashton Anthony was born in 1877, Bernard Redin in 1879, Emily Dorothy in 1881, Barbara Daisy was born in 1882 and Millicent Sarah was born in 1883.

References

1848 births 1916 deaths Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 20th-century English Anglican priests Vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge People educated at Bishop's Stortford College {{UCambridge-stub