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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.

Beechman, Nevil Alexander, son of Charles Beechman, of Hampstead, Middlesex, by Emily, daughter of S. Frankel, of Hampstead; b. Aug. 5, 1896; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (H); migrated up Rigaud's; non-resident K.S. 1911; left (with Triplett) July 1915; Ball. Coll., Oxon., Domus Exhibitioner (Classics) 1915, matric. Michaelmas 1919; joint editor and founder of the Oiford Outlook 1919; Secretary of the Union Society 1920, President 1921; B.A. 1922; 2nd Lieut. E. Surrey Regt. May 28, 1915, attached 21st Batt. K. R. R. C.; Capt. July 20, 1917; served in France from Sept. 1916 until he was wounded Sept. 21, 1917; M.C. Sept. 26, 1917; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Jan. 26, 1923; K.C. 1947; M. P. for St. Ives 1937-50; Parliamentary Private Sec. to the Minister of Health 1941-2; Chief Whip of the Liberal National Party 1942-45; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1943-5; m. July 11, 1953; Mary Gwendolen, widow of Capt. Garth Caradoc Williams, R.E.

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