Author: Beverley, Robert Mackenzie
Biography:
BEVERLEY, Robert Mackenzie (1798-1868: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the eldest child of William Beverley (d 1843) of Beverley, Yorkshire, and his wife Mary Midgley, who inherited large estates in Beverley from her father. No record has been located for his birth but he was baptised in the church of Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas, Beverley, on 13 May 1798; his parents had married in the same church on 1 May 1792. He attended Richmond School in Yorkshire and, briefly, Eton, before matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1816 (LLB 1821). He seems not to have married. In 1822 he was initiated into the masonic lodge in Beverley. Unafraid of controversy, he published various pamphlets on the corrupt state of both the university and the Church of England; these generated numerous counter-attacks and some ridicule. The only other poem he is known to have written is The Redan (1856). He died on 3 Nov. 1868 and was buried in the cemetery in Scarborough, Yorkshire. His estate was valued at under £1500. (ancestry.co.uk 10 Feb. 2023)
Other Names:
- R. M. Beverley