Encyclopedia > Arthur William a Beckett

  Article Content

Arthur William a Beckett

Arthur William a Beckett (1844-January 14, 1909), English journalist and man of letters. A younger son of Gilbert Abbott a Beckett and brother of Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, he was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, and gave an account of his father and his own reminiscences in The A Becketts of Punch (1903). He died in London.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
1904

... cylinder. March 4 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops. April 30 - Louisiana Purchase ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 22 ms