Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet, FRS (17 May 1775 – 31 May 1847) was a British lawyer and Tory politician.

Funerary monument, All Saints, Fulham, London

Beckett was the son of Sir John Beckett, 1st Baronet (1743–1826), and his wife Mary, daughter of Christopher Wilson. He was also a descendant of Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London.

He was elected to Parliament for Cockermouth in 1818, a seat he held until 1821, and then sat for Haslemere from 1826 to 1832 and for Leeds from 1835 to 1837.

Beckett was admitted to the Privy Council in 1817 and appointed Judge Advocate General by Prime Minister Lord Liverpool the same year. He held this office until 1827, and again under the Duke of Wellington from 1828 to 1830 and under Sir Robert Peel from 1834 to 1835.

Beckett married Lady Anne Lowther, daughter of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, in 1817.

He died in Brighton on 31 May 1847, aged 72, and is buried at All Saints Church, Fulham, London.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother, Thomas Beckett. Beckett's nephew (and the 5th baronet) was the architect Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe.

References

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Wallace
John Henry Lowther
Member of Parliament for Cockermouth
18181821
With: John Henry Lowther
Succeeded by
William Wilson Carus Wilson
John Henry Lowther
Preceded by
Charles Long
George Lowther Thompson
Member of Parliament for Haslemere
18261830
With: George Lowther Thompson 1826–1830
William Holmes 1830–1832
Constituency abolished
Preceded by
John Marshall
Edward Baines
Member of Parliament for Leeds
18351837
With: Edward Baines
Succeeded by
Sir William Molesworth, Bt
Edward Baines
Legal offices
Preceded by
Robert Cutlar Fergusson
Judge Advocate General
1834–1835
Succeeded by
Robert Cutlar Fergusson
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Beckett
Baronet
(of Leeds)
1826–1847
Succeeded by
Thomas Beckett


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