Henry Beeston Explained

Henry Beeston DCL was an English educator in the last decades of the 17th Century.^[1]

Beeston was born in Huntingdonshire. He was the eldest son of William Beeston of Possbrook, Titchfield, and Elizabeth Bromfield. William Beeston used the coat of arms of the Cheshire Beeston family but his connections are obscure.^[2]

He graduated BCL from New College, Oxford in 1653 and became a Fellow there. He was Headmaster of Winchester College from 1658 until 1679;^[3] and Warden of New College from 1679 until his death.

His younger brother William Beeston was Governor of Jamaica.

Notes and References

1. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp79-105 pp79-105 Barrowby-Benn Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
2. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/beeston-william-1638 Virginia C.D. Moseley & Rosemary Sgroi, 'BEESTON, William (d. 1638)', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
3. "A history of Winchester College"