xt7qjq0stw34_5523 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection William Thomas Beckford clipping text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. William Thomas Beckford clipping 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_64/Folder_21/Multipage29013.pdf undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_5523 xt7qjq0stw34 Beckford, WVillisz (b. 1760, d, 1844), an
‘ English millionaire and distinguished author.
\Vhen only twenty he published a. clever
satire, Jiiuyrrlp/zical lllvnwirs of Extraor-
dinary llziuiczw. After some foreign travel
he entered Parliament, and published his

great work, The Jt‘wnmzcc qf' Vat/(ck, in
the French language, a book which exalted

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the Widest admiration. lhe chief episodes of
the renuuuder of his life were the erection,
{1.176311011110115 cost, of two vast mansions in
England and a, “ fairy palace ” 111 Porturral.