Name William Beal | ||
William Beal (9 September 1815, Sheffield – 20 April 1870, Aigle, Switzerland) was an English religious writer.
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Life
The Rev Dr William Beal, FSA, was born 9 September 1815 in Sheffield, the son of the Rev.William Beal, a Wesleyan minister, and brother of Samuel Beal and Philip Beal who survived a shipwreck on Kenn Reef. He was educated at Kingswood School, King's College London; St John's College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1841. In the same year he was ordained deacon. Headmaster of Tavistock Grammar School from 1837 to 1847. He was curate of Stamford Spiney, Devon 1841-2; and of Bray, Dublin, 1843-7. He was vicar of Brooke 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 1855-70; and corresponding member of the Working Men's Congregational Union. He died in 1870. He was the editor of the West of England Magazine.
He married Mary Ann Smith, sister of William Henry Smith of the stationery company W.H.Smith and Cabinet minister in Disraeli's Government in 1877. He had been William Beal's student.