BEAN, WILLIAM, son of --- Bean, Camberwell Green, Surrey, apothecary; b.; adm. 1 Feb 1788; a boy of great promise, but with “no connections acquainted with the school”; stood out as a Min. Can. alone and without the assistance of a help (Southey, Life and Correspondence, 1849, i, 154-7); adopted medical profession; entered Army Medical Department as Surgeon’s Mate 25 May 1795; one of Dr. George Pinckard’s “most useful assistants” in Demerara during Sir Ralph Abercromby’s expedition (Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies, 1806, iii, 130); Assistant Surgeon, 76th Foot 2 Aug 1797, 22nd Foot 1 Jan 1807, 24th Light Dragoons 3 Oct 1807; Surgeon, 78th Foot 24 Apr 1811, 56th Foot 11 Apr 1812; murdered c. 13 Apr 1813, aged 39, by some of the crew of the Asia, in the boats of that ship after she had foundered on her way from Java to Bombay. [father presumably Fowler Bean, Camberwell, Surrey, surgeon, will proved PCC 5 Apr 1810]
BEANE, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1566-7 (tutor, Mr Burton).
BEANE, SAMUEL, son of John Beane, Canterbury, Kent; b.; adm.; KS 1689; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1693, matr. 30 Jun 1693, aged 17, Westminster Student 14 Dec 1693-1715 (void), although conditionally expelled for riotous behaviour 24 Apr 1700; BA 1697; MA 1700; ordained deacon (Oxford) 14 Mar 1707/8.
BEARCROFT, COVENTRY BROOK, brother of Henry St. George Bearcroft (qv); bapt. 30 Apr 1785; at school 1794; in school list 1795; KS (aged 14) 1799; probably the Bearcroft who played against Eton in the cricket matches at Lord’s 31 Jul 1800 and 31 Jul 1801; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1802, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1802, but did not matr. ; “had some employment with the Government”; living 1821; m. Louisa O’Neil.
BEARCROFT, HENRY ST. GEORGE, son of Edward Bearcroft KC MP, Chief Justice of Chester, and his third wife Clara St. George, dau. of Edmund [Edward ?] Wilson, Mortlake, Surrey; b.; in school lists 1795 and 1797. [Perhaps Henry Bearcroft who m. 27 Sep 1801 Elizabeth Mary Coppin (IGI)]
Beard, Arthur John Wells, son of Arthur C. Beard of Hampstead and Cicely, d. of John Wells, physician; b. 10 Jan. 1908; adm. Sept. 1921 (A); left July 1925; St Barth. Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1931; MB BS 1941, MD (Lond.) 1943; MRCGP 1970; a specialist in anaesthesia; m. 12 Oct. 1935 Jane Mary, d. of Henry William Ellis, wine merchant, of Wimbledon.
Beard, Balfour West, only son of Walter James Westcott Beard, of St. John's Wood, London, solicitor, by Annie Florence, daughter of Henry West, of Lordship Park, Middlesex; b. Jan. 28, 1876; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (H); left April 1892; was articled to his father, but subsequently left the law for a commercial career; served in Great War I in the R. A. S. C.; m. Sept. 14, 1898, Kate, only child of William Henry Butterworth, of South Africa; d.
Beard, Charles Henry, son of Arthur John Wells Beard (qv); b. 14 Aug. 1938; adm. Sept. 1952 (QS); Capt. of the Sch. 1956; left July 1957; Gonville & Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1957, BA 1960; St Thomas’ Hosp. Med. Sch., BChir 1963, MB 1964, MRCP 1966, FRCS 1969; consult. plastic surgeon, Lancs Area Health Authority; m. 24 Mar. 1962 Patricia Anne Johnston, LRAM LRCM, flautist, d. of Michael Errington Johnston, Under-Sec. Min. of Agriculture, and granddaughter of Claude Errington Longden Johnston (qv); d. 27 Nov. 1980.
Beard, Richard William, son of Brig. William Horace Gladstone Beard, Indian Army, of Great Chart, Ashford, Kent, and Irene Foote; b. 4 May 1931; adm. Sept. 1944 (B); left July 1948; Christ’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1949, BA 1952, MA 1957; Barts Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BChir 1955, MD 1971; RAF Singapore and Malaya 1957-60; MRCOG 1963, FRCOG 1972; house appts. Redhill County Hosp. and Barts Hosp; sen. lecturer and hon. consult., Queen Charlotte’s Hosp. 1967-8, King’s Coll. Hosp. 1968-72; Prof. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Mary’s Hosp. Med. Sch. 1972-96, Prof. Emeritus 1996-; m. 1st, 1957 Jane Elisabeth, d. of Rev. Harry Charles Frederick Copsey, Vicar of East Grinstead, Sussex; 2nd, 1979 Irène Victoire Elisabeth de Marotte de Montigny, d. of Comte Baudouin de Marotte; d. 13 Jan. 2012.
BEARD, WILLIAM, son of Nathaniel Beard, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire; bapt. Newcastle under Lyme 2 Apr 1726 (IGI); adm. (aged 15) Jul 1741 (Bourne's); left 1743; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1744, matr. 1744; adm. Middle Temple 3 May 1745, called to bar 29 Jun 1750; Recorder of Stafford; Judge of Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Pembrokeshire from 1775; d. 26 Feb 1789.