Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Beckford, William (1)
Beckford, William, s. Peter, of Isle of Jamaica, arm. Balliol Coll., matric. 17 Dec., 1725, aged 17; B.A. 1729, M.A. 1732, of Fonthill Abbey, Wilts, M.P. Shaftesbury 1747-54, London 1754-70, lord mayor 1763 and 1770, in which latter year of office he died 21 June. See Foster's Peerage, B. Rivers.