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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.

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