RARE \"Vicar of Fleetwood\" St Vincent Beechey Hand Written Note COA For Sale

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RARE \"Vicar of Fleetwood\" St Vincent Beechey Hand Written Note COA:
$489.99

St.Vincent Beechey(7August 1806 – 19 August 1899) was a nineteenth-century vicar and later of Worsley, Lancashire. He is known for foundingRossall Schoolat Fleetwood in 1844, and he was alsopresident of the Manchester Photographic Society.At the time of his death, it was believed thatBeechey was the oldest clergyman in England, being 93 years old.e was born in London as the twenty-first child ofWilliam Beechey, court painter toKing George III, and his second wife,Anne Jessop. He was also named after his godfather,John Jervis,1st Earl of St Vincent, in recognition of his great naval victory in1797. There is a painting of his godfather by his father. St. Vincent Beechey was also a brother toFrederick William Beechey,the great naval commander, andRichard Brydges Beechey,painter and admiral.He was educated inSidcupunder a Mr. Knowles and atCaius College, Cambridge. Hemarried Mary Ann Ommaney in 1836. They had seven children. St. Vincent wascalled to a meeting at theNorth Euston Hotelin1844 by a young Corsican by the name of Zenon Vantini who was looking to makemoney through an educational insurance scheme. He had proposed two schools offive-hundred pupils in theFyldearea - one for boys, the other for girls.[8]St. Vincent soon rose to prominence in thescheme when it became apparent that any schools founded would be of Anglicanfoundation. The idea for a girls\' school was dropped and it was decided that aschool of 200 students was to open under the name of the North of EnglandChurch of England School - this later becameRossall School.Beechey had to raise funds for the opening of the new school and got thefinancial support ofPeter Hesketh-Fleetwood,The Earl ofDerbyas patron, theDuke ofDevonshireas vice-president andArchbishop Sumner, then Bishop of Chester and later Archbishopof Canterbury, as visitor. The school opened on 22 August 1844 in the groundsof Hesketh\'s Rossall Hall, with a 21-year lease on the aforementioned propertyand an option to purchase after ten years for £7000.[4]Beechey remained on the board of governorsuntil 1856 at which point his association became a more informal supervisoryone. He continued this role until his death in 1899. His views on the earlydays of the school can be read in his book -Rossall School Its Rise andProgress.There is a memorial to him in St Mark\'schurchyard,Worsley, Lancashire.

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