Thomas Beckwith [SEP] date of death
Thomas Beckwith
Thomas Beckwith (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. 1734), attorney and antiquary. He was apprenticed as a house-painter to George Fleming of Wakefield, who tutored him in drawing and limning; subsequently Beckwith himself up in business as a painter in York. He painted portraits and also made
Josiah Beckwith
Josiah Beckwith (born 1734), was an English antiquary.
Life.
Beckwith was born at Rothwell, near Leeds, on 24 August 1734, where his father, Thomas Beckwith, practised as on attorney. He was himself brought up to the same profession, and settled at Masbrough, near Rotherham. He married in August 1763 the eldest daughter and only surviving child of George D'Oxon, of Woodhead, in Cheshire, by whom he had two sons and four daughters, his wife's death taking