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May 31, 1795 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom Died on 26 Apr 1846 (aged 50)
British historian
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About Thomas Alcock Beck
- Thomas Alcock Beck (1795–1846) was the author of Annales Furnesienses (1844), a history of Furness Abbey, which was dedicated by permission to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and which contained twenty-six steel engravings and several woodcuts.
- Beck was a long-term resident of Hawkshead in Lancashire, where his parents had lived at The Grove.
- He was to use a wheelchair for much of his life, being unable to walk due to a spinal complaint.
- At one time he had attended Hawkshead Grammar School and he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1814, but left without taking a degree.
- Around 1819 he commenced the building of his regency mansion, Esthwaite Lodge (subsequently a youth hostel), to the design of George Webster.
- The grounds were specially laid out with easy gradients for his invalid chair.
- Besides other antiquarian interests, he also edited Dr.
- William Close's unfinished work An Itinerary of Furness.
