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 BAYNHAM. See BAINHAM.



Admitted 5 February, 1824

Youngest son of Samuel Pickering Beales, merchant, of Cambridge, where he was born. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship. He was called to the Bar 25 June, 1830. He took an ardent interest in foreign politics, and first brought himself into notice during the visit of Garibaldi to England in 1864, as an asserter of the unlimited right of public meeting.

In the following year he became President of the Reform League, with which his name has since been identified as the organizer of the vast public meetings held under its auspices in support of Earl Russell's Reform Bill in 1866. He resigned the presidency in March, 1869. From 1862 to 1866 Mr. Beales was a Revising Barrister, and in 1870 was appointed a Judge of the County Court in Hunts and Cambridge. He died 26 June, 1881. He published several pamphlets, chiefly on Parliamentary Reform and the wrongs of oppressed nationalities.

BEAR. See BERE.



Admitted 29 June, 1601.

Son and heir of William Belchier, of Guyllesburgh (Guilsborough), co. Northampton. He was educated at Oxford, where he took his degree of B.A., 9 Feb. 1600. He settled in the Low Countries, where he wrote a Comedy entitled Hans Beer Pot, which was published in London in 1618. As it appeared anonymously it was attributed at first to Thomas Nash. He wrote several other plays, but they were never printed. He died at Utrecht in 1621.



Admitted 2 July, 1722.

Only son of Beaupré Bell, of Beaupré Hall, Oatwell [or Outwell], Norfolk. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. in 1725. From the first he took up the study of antiquities, and especially of coins, and commenced a work on the coins of the Roman Emperors, which, however, was never finished. He became a member of the Spalding Club and contributed many papers to its journal, also to Archæologia. He assisted Blomefield in his History of Norfolk, and Hearne in his antiquarian works, and Cole in his edition of Dugdale's Imbanking. He died on his way to Bath, Aug. 1745, leaving his books, medals, and manuscripts to his college at Cambridge.



Admitted 10 November, 1787.

Eldest son of Matthew Bell, of Kendal, Westmorland, where he was born 23 Oct. 1764. He graduated at Cambridge in 1786, Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman. In 1790 he entered himself of Gray's Inn, and was called