Beckwith may refer to

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Beckwith, North Yorkshire Beckwith is a small settlement in North Yorkshire, England. It lies south west of Harrogate. The place name was first recorded in about 972 as ''bec wudu'', Old English for "beech wood". The place was historically a hamlet in the ancient pa ...

, England, United Kingdom *

Beckwith, Ontario Beckwith is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located in Lanark County on the Mississippi River. It is located within Canada's National Capital Region. Communities The township comprises the communities of Black's Corners, Franktown, ...

, township in eastern Ontario, Canada * Beckwith, California, former name of

Beckwourth, California Beckwourth (formerly, Beckwith and Beekwith) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California, United States. Beckwourth is located on the Middle Fork Feather River east of Portola. The population was 432 at the 2010 census, up fr ...

, United States *

Beckwith, West Virginia Beckwith is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Beckwith is located on West Virginia Route 16 and Laurel Creek, northwest of Fayetteville. Beckwith had a post office A post office is a public facil ...

, United States

People

Beckwith baronets The Beckwith Baronetcy, of Aldborough in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 April 1681 for Roger Beckwith. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Yorkshire between 1706 and 1707. The third Baronet w ...

, an English title from 1681 to 1796 * Abijah Beckwith (New York politician) (1785–1874), New York politician * Abijah Beckwith (Wisconsin politician) (1843–1897), Wisconsin politician *

Andrew Beckwith Andrew Beckwith (born March 22, 1995) is a former American professional baseball pitcher. Career Andrew Beckwith attended Blythewood High School in Blythewood, South Carolina, prior to enrolling at Coastal Carolina University. In 2016, he was na ...

(born 1995), American baseball player * Asahel C. Beckwith (1827–1896), Wyoming senator * Athelstan Beckwith (1930–2010), Australian chemist *

Carol Beckwith Carol Beckwith (born July 10, 1945) is an American photographer, author, and artist known for her photojournalism documenting the indigenous tribal cultures of Africa, most notably in partnership with the Australian photographer Angela Fisher. ...

, photographer * Charles Beckwith (disambiguation) *

Christopher Beckwith Christopher I. Beckwith (born October 23, 1945) is an American philologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He has a B.A. in Chinese from Ohio State Universi ...

(born 1945), American linguist and historian * Clarence Beckwith (1849–1931), American theologian * Cora Jipson Beckwith (1875–1955), American zoologist *

Corydon Beckwith Corydon Beckwith (July 24, 1823 – August 18, 1890) was an American jurist and lawyer. Born in Caledonia County, Vermont, Beckwith studied law in St. Albans, Vermont and was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1844. In 1846, Beckwith was admitte ...

(1823–1890), American jurist and lawyer *

Darry Beckwith Darry Douglas Beckwith, Jr. (born May 15, 1987) is a former gridiron football linebacker. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at LSU. He has also been a member of the Indianapoli ...

(born 1987), American footballer *

Dean Beckwith Dean Stuart Beckwith (born 18 September 1983) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Chatham Town. Career Early career Beckwith was born in Southwark, London and came through the youth system at Gill ...

(born 1983), English footballer * Denise Beckwith (born 1977), Australian swimmer *

Edward Griffin Beckwith Edward Griffin Beckwith (June 25, 1818 – June 22, 1881) was a United States Army officer who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and who conducted one of the Pacific Railroad Surveys in the 1850s and became known as the ...

(1818–1881), conducted one of the Pacific Railroad Surveys *

Emma Beckwith Emma Beckwith (December 4, 1849 – November 25, 1919) was an American suffragette, bookkeeper, optician, and inventor. Beckwith held various jobs. She was the first woman in business in the Maiden Lane, Manhattan neighborhood in the spring of ...

(1849–1919), American suffragette, bookkeeper, optician and inventor *

Francis J. Beckwith Francis J. "Frank" Beckwith (born November 3, 1960) is an American philosopher, professor, scholar, speaker, writer, and lecturer. He is currently Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies, Affiliate Professor of Political Science and ...

(born 1960), legal scholar * Frank R. Beckwith (1904–1965), American lawyer and civil rights activist * Henry L. P. Beckwith Jr. (born 1935), American author *

Holmes Beckwith Holmes Beckwith (1884 – April 2, 1921) was an American political scientist and professor of finance and insurance at several universities. He shot and killed Dean J. Herman Wharton and himself at Syracuse University on April 2, 1921. Educatio ...

, American political scientist *

George Beckwith (British Army officer) General Sir George Beckwith GCB (1753 – 20 March 1823) was a British Army officer. Military career Beckwith was commissioned into the 37th Regiment of Foot in 1771. He distinguished himself as a regimental officer in the American Revolution ...

(1753–1823) *

George Beckwith (Carl Jung associate) George Beckwith (20 November 1896, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa – 2 November 1931, in San Diego County, California) was an American expatriate in 1920s Paris and an early Jungian associate who accompanied psychologist Carl Jung on his African expedit ...

(1896–1931), American patient and associate of Carl Jung *

Gladys Beckwith Gladys Eloise Beckwith (1929 – December 8, 2020) was an American academic and women's rights activist. She was the co-founder of the Michigan Women's Studies Association and the founder of the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. Beckwith was o ...

(1929–2020), American women's studies academic *

(1884–1921), American academic *

James Carroll Beckwith James Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a respected figure in ...

(1852–1917), American portrait painter. * James Roswell Beckwith, US Attorney in New Orleans, prosecuted perpetrators of the Colfax Massacre (1873) *

James R. Beckwith James R. Beckwith (July 18, 1857 – April 28, 1935) was an American farmer, politician, and businessman. Born in Elmira, New York, Beckwith moved with his parents, in 1871, to Columbia County, Wisconsin and then to Barron County, Wisconsin. ...

(1857–1935), American politician * James P. Beckwith, better known as

James Beckwourth James Pierson Beckwourth (born Beckwith, April 26, 1798 or 1800 – October 29, 1866 or 1867), was an American mountain man, North American fur trade, fur trader, and explorer. Beckwourth was known as "Bloody Arm" because of his skill as a fighte ...

(1800−1866), trapper, Indian chief, fur trader, scout * Jefferson H. Beckwith (1813–1865), American politician *

Joe Beckwith Thomas Joseph Beckwith (January 28, 1955May 22, 2021) was an American baseball pitcher who played seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Kansas City Royals from 1979 to 1986. He threw right-hand ...

(1955–2021), American baseball player * John Beckwith (disambiguation) *

Jon Beckwith Jonathan Roger Beckwith (born December 25, 1935, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American microbiologist and geneticist. He is the American Cancer Society Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School ...

(born 1935), American microbiologist * Josiah Beckwith (born 1734), English antiquary *

Julia Catherine Beckwith Julia Catherine Beckwith (March 10, 1796 – November 28, 1867) was credited as being Canada's first novelist. Early life Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, she spent much of her early life in Nova Scotia and Quebec. Her mother Julie-Louise Le ...

(1796–1867), Canadian novelist *

Kendell Beckwith Kendell Beckwith (born December 2, 1994) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Louisiana State University (LSU). Professional career Coming out of LSU, Beckwith was projected by the majority of NFL draft expert ...

(born 1994), American football player *

Lillian Beckwith Lillian Beckwith (25 April 1916 – 3 January 2004), real name Lillian Comber, was an English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Isle of Skye. Born Lilian Lloyd in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, she married Edw ...

, English author * Mark M. Beckwith, American bishop *

Martha Warren Beckwith Martha Warren Beckwith (January 19, 1871 – January 28, 1959) was an American folklorist and ethnographer, appointed to the first chair in Folklore established in the U.S. Early life and education Beckwith was born in Wellesley Heights, Mass ...

(1871–1959), American folklorist *

Mary Lincoln Beckwith Mary Lincoln Beckwith (August 22, 1898 – July 10, 1975) was a prominent descendant of Abraham Lincoln. Beckwith was one of the last two descendants of Abraham Lincoln, along with her younger brother Robert. Early life Beckwith was born to ...

(1898–1975), great-granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln * Mayhew Beckwith (1798–1871), Canadian merchant and politician *

Michael Beckwith Michael Bernard Beckwith is a New Thought minister, author, and founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Beverly Hills, California. Career Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape Internati ...

, New Thought minister * Naomi Beckwith (born 1976), American curator *

Reginald Beckwith William Reginald Beckwith (2 November 190826 June 1965) was an English film and television actor, who made over one hundred film and television appearances in his career. He died of a heart attack aged 56. Beckwith was also a film critic and ...

(1908–1965), English actor *

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (July 19, 1904 – December 24, 1985) was an American gentleman farmer known as a great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln. In 1975, he became the last undisputed descendant of Lincoln when his sister, Mary Lincoln Bec ...

(1904–1985), great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln * Sandra Beckwith (born 1943), American judge *

Stephen Beckwith Stephen Beckwith (born 1623) was a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut. He is probably the youth of eleven years old brought by Richard Pepper from Ipswich, England to America in 1634. He was at Hartford Hartford is the capital city o ...

(born 1623), founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut *

Tamara Beckwith Tamara Jane Beckwith (born 17 April 1970) is an English socialite and television personality. In the 1990s, she was regarded as one of the "It girls" of the London social scene. Early life The daughter of property developer Peter Beckwith, Bec ...

(born 1970), English socialite *

Thomas Beckwith Thomas Beckwith FSA (10 February 1731 – 17 February 1786) was an English painter, genealogist and antiquary. Life and work Beckwith was born at Rothwell, West Yorkshire, the son of a West Riding solicitor, and brother of Josiah Beckwith (b ...

(1731–1786), English painter *

Thomas Sydney Beckwith Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Sydney Beckwith (17 February 177015 January 1831) was an English officer of the British Army who served as quartermaster general of the British forces in Canada during the War of 1812, and a commander-in-chief of ...

(1775–1831), British army officer * Wally Beckwith (1893–1983), Australian runner and footballer *

Warren Wallace Beckwith Warren Wallace Beckwith Sr. (August 10, 1874 – September 24, 1955) was an American sportsman who served as a minor league baseball player during the late 1800s. His first wife was Jessie Harlan Lincoln, a member of the Lincoln family and grandd ...

, Lincoln family member *

William Beckwith General William Beckwith, KCH (1795 – 23 February 1871) was a general in the British Army. He was the eldest son of William Beckwith of Trimdon, County Durham. Career In 1813 he enlisted as a cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons and served with ...

(1795–1871), English Army officer

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Beckwith Company The Beckwith Company was a publishing entity in 1920, based in New York City. It is remembered for publishing a second edition of the forged ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion'', more specifically a second translation from the Russian language in ...

, American book publisher *

Beckwith Island Beckwith Island is the eastern of three islands in southeastern Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada. Beckwith Island and the attached "Little Beckwith" are part of the Beausoleil First Nation. Geography The island's highest elevation is above se ...

, Ontario, Canada

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