BEDFORD, GROSVENOR CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Bedford, Brixton, Surrey, and New P{alace Yard, Westminster, Deputy Usher, Court of Exchequer, and Mary Page; b. 1773; adm. 2 Mar 1784; took the part of the Dauphin in play King John acted by the Town Boys Dec 1789; assisted Robert Southey (qv) and Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn (qv) in the production of the short-lived Flagellant, Mar-Apr 1792; Assistant Clerk, Exchequer Office, 1792-1803, Clerk of the Cash Book 1803-6, Clerk of the Registers and Issues 1806-22, Chief Clerk in Auditor’s Office 1822-34; adm. Gray’s Inn 26 Jan 1797; his correspondence with Southey is printed in Southey’s Life and Correspondence, 1849; translated Musaeus’s Lives of Hero and Leander, 1797; co-editor with Southey of Specimens of the Later English Poets, 1807; d. unm. 14 Jun 1839.
Bedford, Hilkiah; third son of Hilkiah Bedford, Hosier Lane, West Smithfield, London, mathematical instrument maker, and Mary, dau. of William Plat ; b. 23 Jul 1663 ; ed. Bradley, Suffolk, and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, Plat scholar 1679 ; Fellow, St.John’s Coll. 1685 ; ordained deacon 18 Sep 1686 (Ely), priest 25 Sep 1687 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Wittering, Northants., 26 Nov 1687, but ejected as a non-juror 1690 ; Chaplain to Thomas Ken, ejected Bishop of Bath and Wells ; travelling tutor to pupils on Grand Tour in France and Italy ; found guilty in 1714 of writing, publishing and printing a seditious libel, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment (although the pamphlet in question, The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted, 1713, had not in fact been written by him) ; Chaplain to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea Jan 1719 ; consecrated a non-juring bishop by Bishops Spinckes, Hawes and Gandy 25 Jan 1720/1 ; kept a boarding house on Millbank for the School from summer 1718 ; his surviving correspondence in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, includes a few references to boarders being placed with him ; m. Alice, dau. of William Cooper, Scarborough, Yorks., master mariner ; d. 26 Nov 1724. Father of William, John and Thomas Bedford (qvv). ODNB.
BEDFORD, HORACE WALPOLE, brother of Grosvenor Charles Bedford (qv); b.; adm. 2 Mar 1784; held a post at the British Museum; d. unm. 22 Sep 1807, aged 31.
BEDFORD, JOHN, son of Rev. William Bedford, Bedford; b.; adm.; KS 1698; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1702, matr. 12 Jun 1702, aged 19, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1702 - 27 Jan 1714 (void, expiry year of grace as V. Willen); BA 1706; MA 1709 (incorp. Cambridge 1730); ordained; Vicar of Willen, Bucks., from 20 Jan 1712/3, being the first vicar presented by the Busby Trustees; d. Jan 1765.
BEDFORD, JOHN, brother of William Bedford (adm. 1718, qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) May 1719; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar Nov (?) 1726, matr. 1727; MD Padua 3 Mar 1735; practised as a physician in Durham, retiring about 1761 and becoming a recluse; m. 1st, 7 Jun 1738 Alice, dau. of William Davison, Beamish, co. Durham; m. 2nd, 26 Feb 1745/6 Elizabeth, dau. of Posthumus Smith, Commissary-General of Archdeaconry of Durham; m. 3rd, 22 Mar 1753 Dulcibella, dau. of Edward Horseman, Stretton, Rutland; buried St. Mary the Less, Durham, 26 Dec 1775.
BEDFORD, LOUIS HENRY, brother of George Sale Bedford (qv); b. 7 Jul 1819; adm. 30 Sep 1828 (Stikeman's); Ensign, 57th Foot, 27 Mar 1842; Lieut., 22 Mar 1843; Capt., 8 Mar 1850; 37th Foot 19 Dec 1851; served in Indian Mutiny; killed in a sortie from the entrenchments at Azringhur, Oudh, 28 Mar 1858.
BEDFORD, THOMAS, son of Thomas Bedford, Tothill Street, Westminster, clothworker, and Eline ---; bapt. 27 Oct 1644; adm.; BB Jun 1655- Mich. 1656 (Exch. K. R. Misc. Books, Ser. II, vol. 59; Exch. L. T. R. Misc. Rolls, Bundle 58); in school lists 1656; from an undated petition to the Governors (Chapter Muniments 43078), it appears that though Bedford had been a Bishop’s Boy “above six months and had received his salary, he was still without his purple gown”; in another petition the father begs for his son’s election into College (Chapter Muniments 32474).
BEDFORD, THOMAS, brother of William Bedford (adm. 1718, qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1718; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 5 May 1724, matr. 1724; did not graduate since a non-juror; received non-juring orders as priest 27 Dec 1731 (Notes and Queries, 3rd series, iii, 244); chaplain in the family of Sir John Cotton, Bart., at Angers, France; non-juring minister, residing successively in Durham and at Compton, near Ashbourne, Derbs.; edited Symeon of Durham’s De Exordio atque Procursu Dunhelmensis Ecclesiae Libellus, 1732, and a Historical Catechism, 1742; d. Feb 1773. DNB.
BEDFORD, WILLIAM CAMPBELL RILAND, son of William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford (qv); b. 29 May 1852; adm. 13 Apr 1865 (James'); left Aug 1869; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. 18 Oct 1871, matr. Mich. 1871; ran v. Oxford in the hurdles 1874, 1875, and in the 100 yards 1875; BA 1875; MA 1878; ordained deacon 1875, priest 1876 (both Worcester); Curate, St. Michael’s, Coventry, Warwicks., 1875-7, All Saints, Leamington, 1878; Vicar of Little Aston, Birmingham, 1878-81; Curate, Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., 1882-7; Vicar of Knowle, Warwicks., 1889-92; Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., 1892-1908; Hon. Canon Birmingham 1906-8; Grand Chaplain, United Grand Lodge of England, 1902; m. 5 Dec 1877 Eleanor Phoebe, fourth dau. of Sir James Timmins Chance, Bart., glass manufacturer; d. 15 Aug 1922.
BEDFORD, WILLIAM DEVAYNES, second son of George Bedford, Bedford Row, London, solicitor, and his first wife Judith, dau. of John Thompson, Chiswick, Middlesex; b. Dec 1801; adm. Christmas 1814; Ensign, 1st Foot, 6 Apr 1826; Lieut., 31 Jan 1827; 16th Lancers 5 Dec 1833; 95th Foot, 3 Jul 1835; 60th Foot, half-pay, 24 Jul 1835; Major of Brigade and DAAG, Anglo-Spanish Legion 1835-6; Paymaster, 11th Light Dragoons (Hussars), 28 Apr 1837; 87th Foot, 7 May 1847; half-pay, unattached, 28 Apr 1850; author, Some Suggestions for the Cheap Defence of the Kingdom, 1853; m. 13 Jul 1842 Anne Jane, eldest dau. of John Clerk, Southampton; d. 4 Aug 1872.