Edmund beckett denison biography of alberta

English lawyer and horologist (–)

Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, KC (12 May &#;– 29 April ), known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison, was an English lawyer, mechanician, and controversialist,^[1] as well as a noted horologist and architect.

Biography

Beckett was born at Carlton Hall near Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, and was the eldest son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, MP for the West Riding of Yorkshire.^[2]

He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School for Boys (briefly), then Eton, and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in the Tripos with the rank of "30th Wrangler".^[2]

Beckett began practising law in at Lincoln's Inn, becoming a leader of the parliamentary bar.

He was made a Queen's Counsel in , retiring in ^[2] He was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society in He was elected to the preside