Edmund beckett denison biography of martin

&#;BECKETT, Sir EDMUND, first Baron Grimthorpe (–), lawyer, mechanician and controversialist, born at Carlton Hall, near Newark, on 12 May , was eldest son of Sir Edmund Beckett, fourth baronet (–), who assumed the additional surname of Denison by royal letters patent in and resumed his original surname by the same process on succeeding to the baronetcy in The elder Sir Edmund was conservative M.P. for the West Riding in and again from to Beckett's mother, who died on 27 March , was Maria, daughter of William Beverley of Beverley, and great-niece and heiress of Anne, daughter of Roundell Smithson of Millfield, near Harewood, and widow of Sir Thomas Denison, judge of the king's bench.

Educated at Doncaster grammar school, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, Beckett Denison graduated B.A. as thirtieth wrangler in (M.A. , LL.D. ). He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in , became a Q.C. in , a bencher of his inn