BEDFORD, WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK RILAND, eldest son of Rev. William Riland Bedford, Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., and Grace Campbell, dau. of Charles Sharpe, Hoddam, Dumfries-shire; b. 12 Jul 1826; adm. (G) 4 Jun 1839; QS 1840; left 1844; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Jun 1844; Secretary, Oxford Union 1847; BA 1848; MA 1852; ordained deacon 1849, priest 1850 (both Worcester); Curate, Southwell, Notts., 1849-50; Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., 1850-92, succeeding his uncle Richard Williamson (qv) and resigning in favour of his son William Campbell Riland Bedford (qv); Chaplain of Grand Lodge, Freemasons, 1861; Chaplain and Genealogist, Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, 1878-1902; JP (1848) Warwickshire; a keen cricketer and expert archer; founded the Free Foresters Cricket Club 1856; winner, Arden Medal for archery at Meriden, 1857; author, The Blazon of Episcopacy, 1858, Rowing at Westminster, 1890, and other works; m. 1st, 18 Sep 1851 Maria Amy, youngest dau. of Joseph Houson, Southwell, Notts.; m. 2nd, 1900 Margaret, dau. of Denis Browne; d. 23 Jan 1905. DNB.
BEDFORD, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Bedford, Little Barford, Beds.; bapt. Great Barford, Beds. 19 Sep 1699; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1715; at school four years; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Jul 1717, matr. 1718/9; BA 1721/2; MA 1725 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1733); ordained deacon (Lincoln) 10 Mar 1722/3, priest 31 May 1724; Curate Willen, Bucks.; Rector of Finningley, Notts., 9 Feb 1725/6, res Apr 1733; Rector of Yelden, Beds., from 26 Jan 1732/3; Rector of Shelton, Beds., 15 Mar 1734/5-46; Rector of St. John’s, Bedford (and Master of Hospital of St. John), from 9 Jun 1746; m. 1736 Sarah, widow of Peter Haslewood, Bedford, draper, Alderman of Bedford, and dau. of Matthew Lacy, Shillington, Beds.; d. 30 May 1754.
BEDFORD, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. Hilkiah Bedford, a non-juring clergyman (later non-juring bishop) who kept a boarding house at Westminster, and Alice, dau. of William Cooper, master mariner, Scarborough, Yorks.; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1718; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 29 May 1722; MD 1737; Leiden Univ., adm. 10 Sep 1727; medical practitioner in London; FRCP 30 Sep 1738, Gulstonian Lecturer 1740, Censor 1742, 1745, Registrar 1745-6; Physician to Christ’s Hospital from Nov 1746; FRS 1745 [check]; a friend of Thomas Hearne, the antiquary; m. 1st, 22 May 1739 Elizabeth Smart, St. Giles in the Fields, London; m. 2nd, Elizabeth ---; d. 10 Jul 1747.
BEDINGFELD, EDMUND; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jul 1728; left 1733. [note Edmund Bedingfeld, Blackheath, Kent, will proved PCC 18 Jul 1758]
BEDINGFELD, PHILIP, elder son of James Bedingfeld, Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Francis Maskull; b. 31 May 1716; at school under Freind (R. F. Scott, ed. , Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb. , iii, 74); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Jan 1733/4, fellow commoner 9 Oct 1735; of Ditchingham Hall; High Sheriff of Norfolk 1756; m. 1st, by Sep 1744, Mary, dau. of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. , MP, Gillingham, Norfolk; m. 2nd, 8 Aug 1761, Susan, widow of Rev. --- Forster DD, and dau. of Francis Spendlove, Norwich; d. 27 Apr 1791.
BEDINGFELD, ROBERT, son of Edmund Bedingfeld, St. Gregory’s, London, and Mary Sherwood, St. Clement Danes, London; bapt. 21 Jun 1719; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1732; left 1736; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1737; BA 6 Feb 1740/1; MA 1743.
BEDINGFELD, ROBERT, third son of Thomas Bedingfeld, Ditchingham, Norfolk, and Dorothy, dau. of John Southwell, Darsham, Suffolk; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1614, matr. 21 Nov 1617, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1632; BA 1618; MA 1621; BD 1628; DD 21 Jan 1630/1 (incorp. Cambridge 1631/2); ordained; Rector of Newton, Isle of Ely, Cambs., 1631-5; m. Anne, dau. of Edmund Thoresby; d. 1651.
BEDINGFELD, THOMAS, son of John Bedingfeld, Halesworth, Suffolk, and Joyce, dau. of Edward Morgan, Lambeth, Surrey; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1650, matr. 14 Mar 1650/1, Westminster Student to 1660, Faculty Student 1660-3; BA 17 Jan 1653/4; MA 1656; MB 1659; MD 1662; lic. to m. 20 Jul 1670 Mary, dau. of John Weston, Isleworth, Middlesex; buried Isleworth 20 Apr 1691.
BEDINGFELD, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1730/1; in school list 1736. [note will William Bedingfeld, St. Anne, Soho, proved PCC 13 Jan 1769]
Beech, Guy, son of the Rev. Howard Beech, Rector of Barlavington and Burton with Coates, Sussex, by Henrietta Mildred, daughter of the Rev. William Worcester Godden, Vicar of Elmstead, Essex; b. Sept. 13, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (G); left July 1901; Merton Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1905; B.A. 1908; M.A. 1911; Wells Theo!. Coll. 1909; ordained 1910; Curate of Aylesbury, Bucks, 1910-3, of Tring, Herts, 1914-9; temp. Chaplain of the Forces (4th class) Jan. 1, 1916 - April 1, 1919; served with B. E. F. in France and Belgium 1916-9; Rector of Turvey, Beds, 1919; Vicar of King's Langley 1934-8; Rector of Northchurch, Herts, 1938-54; Hon. Canon of St. Alban's 1948; m. Aug. 30, 1922, Judith Mary, only daughter of Douglas Upton, of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, co. Durham; d. Nov. 26, 1958.