Samuel Orchart Beeton was an English publisher, best known as the husband of Mrs Beeton and publisher of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. He also founded and published Boy's Own Magazine (1855–90), the first and most influential boys' magazine.
Samuel Beeton in 1860
Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine, 1855–1890, was the first and most influential boys' magazine.
Headstone of Samuel and Isabella Beeton, West Norwood Cemetery.
Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in London and, after schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor.
Isabella Beeton (née Mayson), photographed in about 1854.
Cheapside, London, where Isabella and her family moved in 1836
The new race stand at Epsom Racecourse in 1829
Samuel Orchart Beeton in 1860