William Beal (9 September 1815, Sheffield – 20 April 1870, Aigle, Switzerland) was an English religious writer.

Life

The Reverend Dr. William Beal, FSA, was born 9 September 1815 in Sheffield. He was the son of the Reverend William Beal, a Wesleyan minister, and brother of

Samuel Beal Samuel Beal (27 November 1825, in Devonport, Devon – 20 August 1889, in Greens Norton, Northamptonshire) was an Oriental scholar, and the first Englishman to translate directly from the Chinese the early records of Buddhism, thus illuminating I ...

and Philip Beal who survived a shipwreck on

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. He was educated at Kingswood School,

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;

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and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1841. In the same year he was ordained deacon. Beal was headmaster of Tavistock Grammar School from 1837 to 1847. He was curate of Stamford Spiney in Devon between 1841 and 1842; and of Bray, Dublin, from 1843 to 1847. He was vicar of

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near Norwich from 1847 to 1870. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Aberdeen. He is best known as the promoter of harvest homes for country districts in 1854. At Norwich he was vice-president of the People's College, Diocesan Inspector of Schools from 1855 to 1870 and corresponding member of the Working Men's Congregational Union. He died in 1870, while he was the editor of the ''West of England Magazine''. He married Mary Ann Smith, sister of William Henry Smith of the stationery company

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, who was also a cabinet minister in Disraeli's Government in 1877.First with the News. The history of W.H.Smith 1792-1972. Charles Wilson. Jonathan Cape. 1985. .

Works

* ''An Analysis of Palmer's Origines Liturgicæ'', 1850 * ''The Nineveh Monuments and the Old Testament'' * ''A Letter to the Earl of Albemarle on Harvest Homes.'' * ''A First Book of Chronology'', 1846 * (ed., with preface) Certain godly Prayers originally appended to the Book of Common Prayer''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beal, William 1815 births 1870 deaths Alumni of King's College London Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Aberdeen English religious writers 19th-century English non-fiction writers 19th-century English Anglican priests Writers from Sheffield People from Brooke, Norfolk