St. Vincent Beechey

St Vincent Beechey (far left, seated) at the wedding of his granddaughter Mabel Champion Jones, in Camberley, Surrey, on 27 July 1898. Mabel Champion Jones was the daughter of Beechey's daughter Charlotte.

St. Vincent Beechey (7 August 1806 – 19 August 1899) was a nineteenth-century vicar of Fleetwood and Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, and later of Worsley, Lancashire. He is known for founding Rossall School at Fleetwood in 1844, and he was also president of the Manchester Photographic Society.[1] At the time of his death, it was believed that Beechey was the oldest clergyman in England, being 93 years old.[2]

  1. ^ Early Photography - Photographic Societies - Committee Members in the 1860s - Societies M N
  2. ^ Microsoft Word - BJPAsummary.doc Archived 24 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine