Peter Beckford (junior)
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Peter Beckford was a Jamaican politician, merchant and planter who served as speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica from 1707 to 1713, and again from 1716 to 1717. Beckford was the son of Colonel
1797 portrait of Beckford's daughter Elizabeth by Benjamin West
Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham was the wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham, and the mother of both Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham, and Richard Howard, 4th Earl of Effingham.
Peter Beckford (junior)
…point in his life, Beckford married Bathshua Hering, having nine children: Peter, William, Richard, Nathaniel, Julines, Francis, Ellis, Bathshua and Elizabeth. In either 1718 or 1723, Beckford sent the young William to England to study at Westminster School in Westminster, London, as Jamaica suffered from a…
Funeral hatchment in Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges