Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe,, known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison, was an English lawyer, mechanician, and controversialist, as well as a noted horo
Edmund Beckett
"Bells" Baron Grimthorpe as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1889
The Trinity College Clock mechanism was designed by Lord Grimthorpe
St Chad's Church, Far Headingley
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Baron Grimthorpe, of Grimthorpe in the East Riding of the County of York, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 February 1886 for the lawyer and architect Edmund Becket
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
…attend dinners. He was re-elected annually until his death. In 1877 he was appointed Chancellor and Vicar-General of the Diocese of York. He was created Baron Grimthorpe in 1886. He is sometimes known as Edmund Beckett Denison; his father had taken the additional name Denison in 1816, but the son dropped it on his…
Arms of the Beckett family