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Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (born Ernest William Beckett-Denison; 25 November 1856 – 9 May 1917), was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the Grimthorpe peerage.

Early life

Beckett was the eldest son of William Beckett, younger son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and Hon. Helen Duncombe, daughter of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham. He was the nephew of Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, and great nephew of Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet.

Beckett was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge,^[1] though he failed to complete his first year at university and dropped out to travel abroad. He later became a partner in the banking firm of Beckett & Co, of Leeds, owned by his father.

Career

He was a major in the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry Cavalry,^[2] was commissioned as an Assistant Adjutant general in the Imperial Yeomanry on 28 February 1900,^[3]^[4] during the Second Boer War, and returned to the Yorkshire Hussars when he resigned from active duty in July 1902.^[5]

In 1885, Beckett was elected Member of Parliament for Whitby, a seat he held until 1905, though he is rarely mentioned in Hansard.^[6] In 1886, he resumed the name Beckett in place of Denison. In 1905, he succeeded his uncle Lord Grimthorpe as 2nd Baron according to a special remainder in the letters patent, as well as in the family baronetcy. However, he squandered much of his inherited family wealth and in 1905 he was also sacked as a senior partner in the family bank by his two brothers because of his expensive tastes and personal debts. He had once commissioned a bronze bust of his then fiancée Eve Fairfax from the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin.

In a 2010 biographical study, Michael Holroyd described Beckett as 'a man of swiftly changing enthusiasms ... a dilettante, philanderer, gambler and opportunist. He changed his career, his interests and his mistresses quite regularly.'^[7]

Italy

In 1904, Beckett bought a ruined farmhouse outside Ravello, on the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy. He transformed it into a fortified palace with towers, battlements and a mixture of Arabic, Venetian and Gothic details, and called it Villa Cimbrone.^[8] Between the house and the cliff edge, he built a garden, high above the Gulf of Salerno. The garden is an eccentric mixture of formal, English rose beds, Moorish tea houses, picturesque grottoes and classical temples. Today the house is a luxurious hotel, and the garden is open to the public.

Personal life

On 4 October 1883, Ernest married an American, Lucy Tracy Lee, the only child of William Pray Lee and Lucy Eldredge Tracy when he was 26 and she was 18.^[9] Lucy died on 9 May 1891, six days after their son's birth. They had three children:

Lucy Catherine Beckett (born 1884), who married Count Otto Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, the Austro-Hungarian Minister to Bulgaria, in 1903. They divorced in 1920 and she remarried to Captain Oliver Harry Frost, son of Robert Frost (not the poet), in 1926 (divorced 1941).
Helen Muriel Beckett (1886–1916)
Ralph William Ernest Beckett (1891–1963).

Beckett is also believed to have been the father of Violet Trefusis (1894–1972), whose mother, Alice Keppel was a mistress of King Edward VII.^[10] Today, Violet is mainly remembered for her lengthy affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West, which the two women continued after their respective marriages.^[11]

He also fathered a son, Lancelot Ernest Cecil, in 1895 by the Johannesburg socialite and hostess José Brink Dale Lace, married to mining magnate, John Dale Lace. In 1901, Ernest became engaged to Eve Fairfax, but the engagement was broken a few years later. During this time, he commissioned a bust of Eve from sculptor Auguste Rodin, which was the first of several Rodin made using Eve as a model. Rodin and Eve became close friends during the sittings for these busts.^{[citation needed]}

Lord Grimthorpe died in April 1917, aged 60, at a sanatorium in Banchory, Aberdeenshire.^[12] He was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son, Ralph Beckett. Lord Grimthorpe's younger brother, Gervase Beckett, also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament and was created a baronet in 1921 (see Beckett baronets). His ashes are interred in the gardens of his beloved Villa Cimbrone.^[13]

Descendants

His only son was the father of Christopher John Beckett, who became the 4th Baron Grimthorpe upon Ralph's death in 1963. Another grandson, by his daughter Lucy, Manfred Beckett Czernin (1913–1962) was a distinguished Royal Air Force pilot and Special Operations Executive operative.

Legacy

In Leeds, Beckett Park is named after Lord Grimthorpe.

In 2013, it was announced that the Board of Governors at Leeds Metropolitan University had applied to the privy council to change their name to Leeds Beckett University, named after the location of the university's founding colleges, Beckett Park.^[14]

Arms

Coat of arms of Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe
	Crest A boar’s head couped Or pierced by a cross patée fitchée erect Gules. Escutcheon Gules a fess between three boars’ heads couped Erminois. Supporters Two sangliers Erminois each gorged with a collar and pendant therefrom an escutcheon Gules charged with a cross patée fitchée Or. Motto Prodesse Civibus (To Serve The State)^[15]

References

^ "Denison (post Beckett, E. W.) Ernest William (DNY875EW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ "Debrett's House of Commons". 1886. under Denison. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ "No. 27169". The London Gazette. 27 February 1900. p. 1351.
^ "No. 27173". The London Gazette. 13 March 1900. p. 1715.
^ "No. 27454". The London Gazette. 15 July 1902. p. 4513.
^ Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ernest Beckett
^ "Vita and Violet: The Greatest Bloomsbury Love Story". The New York Times. 7 August 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ "Villa Cimbrone: history". Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
^ Depew, Chauncey M. (2013). Titled Americans, 1890: A list of American ladies who have married foreigners of rank. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-78366-005-6. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
^ Michael Holroyd, A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (Chatto, 2010).
^ Taylor, Clare L. (2004). "Trefusis, Violet (1894–1972)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76253. Retrieved 29 November 2007.
^ "Obituary. Lord Grimthorpe". Birmingham Daily Post. British Newspaper Archive. 10 May 1917. p. 8 col.5. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
^ "The Gardens of Villa Cimbrone". Minor Sights. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
^ "Leeds Metropolitan aims to become Leeds Beckett University". BBC News. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ Debrett's Peerage. 1921.

External links

Media related to Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe at Wikimedia Commons

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ernest Beckett
Family secrets by Michael Holroyd
The Importance of Being Ernest and Some Women of No Importance by Michael Holroyd (excerpt from A Book of Secrets)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Arthur Pease	Member of Parliament for Whitby 1885–1905	Succeeded by Noel Buxton
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edmund Beckett	Baron Grimthorpe 1905–1917	Succeeded by Ralph Beckett
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edmund Beckett	Baronet (of Leeds) 1917–1963	Succeeded by Ralph Beckett

[1] "Denison (post Beckett, E. W.) Ernest William (DNY875EW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[2] "Debrett's House of Commons". 1886. under Denison. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

[3] "No. 27169". The London Gazette. 27 February 1900. p. 1351.

[4] "No. 27173". The London Gazette. 13 March 1900. p. 1715.

[5] "No. 27454". The London Gazette. 15 July 1902. p. 4513.

[6] Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ernest Beckett

[7] "Vita and Violet: The Greatest Bloomsbury Love Story". The New York Times. 7 August 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

[8] "Villa Cimbrone: history". Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2007.

[Depew2013-9] Depew, Chauncey M. (2013). Titled Americans, 1890: A list of American ladies who have married foreigners of rank. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-78366-005-6. Retrieved 5 August 2019.

[10] Michael Holroyd, A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers (Chatto, 2010).

[11] Taylor, Clare L. (2004). "Trefusis, Violet (1894–1972)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76253. Retrieved 29 November 2007.

[12] "Obituary. Lord Grimthorpe". Birmingham Daily Post. British Newspaper Archive. 10 May 1917. p. 8 col.5. Retrieved 16 June 2023.

[13] "The Gardens of Villa Cimbrone". Minor Sights. Retrieved 1 May 2016.

[14] "Leeds Metropolitan aims to become Leeds Beckett University". BBC News. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

[15] Debrett's Peerage. 1921.

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+{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
-'''Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe''' (25 November 1856 – 9 May 1917), born '''Ernest William Beckett-Denison''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] banker and  [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the [[Baron Grimthorpe|Grimthorpe]] [[peerage]].
+[[File:W.T. Pike Contemporary Biographies N & E Ridings of Yorkshire 1903 (59a).jpg|thumb|right|Ernest Beckett, Lord Grimthorpe]]
+'''Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe''' (born '''Ernest William Beckett-Denison'''; 25 November 1856 – 9 May 1917), was a British banker and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the [[Baron Grimthorpe|Grimthorpe peerage]].
-==Biography==
+== Early life ==
-Beckett was the eldest son of [[William Beckett-Denison|William Beckett]], younger son of [[Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet]] and Hon. Helen Duncombe, daughter of [[William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham]]. Beckett was the nephew of [[Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe]] and great nephew of [[Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet]].
+Beckett was the eldest son of [[William Beckett-Denison|William Beckett]], younger son of [[Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet]], and Hon. Helen Duncombe, daughter of [[William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham]]. He was the nephew of [[Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe]], and great nephew of [[Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet]].
-Beckett was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref>{{acad|id=DNY875EW|name=Denison (post Beckett, E. W.) Ernest William}}</ref> though he failed to complete his first year at university and dropped out to travel abroad.  He later became a partner in the banking firm of Beckett & Co, of [[Leeds]], owned by his father.
+Beckett was educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref>{{acad|id=DNY875EW|name=Denison (post Beckett, E. W.) Ernest William}}</ref> though he failed to complete his first year at university and dropped out to travel abroad. He later became a partner in the banking firm of Beckett & Co, of [[Leeds]], owned by his father.
+== Career ==
-He was a [[Major (British Army)|major]] in the [[Yorkshire Hussars]] Yeomanry Cavalry,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft|title=Debrett's House of Commons|publisher=|accessdate=23 August 2016|year=1886 |at=under Denison}}</ref> was commissioned as an Assistant [[Adjutant general]] in the [[Imperial Yeomanry]] on 28 February 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27169 |page=1351| date=27 February 1900}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27173| page=1715|date=13 March 1900}}</ref> during the [[Second Boer War]], and returned to the Yorkshire Hussars when he resigned from active duty in July 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27454|page=4513| date=15 July 1902}}</ref>
+[[File:Ernest Beckett Vanity Fair 7 January 1904.jpg|thumb|"[[Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)|Whitby]]". Beckett as caricatured by "Spy" ([[Leslie Ward]]) in ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', January 1904]]
+He was a [[Major (British Army)|major]] in the [[Yorkshire Hussars]] Yeomanry Cavalry,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft|title=Debrett's House of Commons|access-date=23 August 2016|year=1886 |at=under Denison}}</ref> was commissioned as an Assistant [[Adjutant general]] in the [[Imperial Yeomanry]] on 28 February 1900,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27169 |page=1351| date=27 February 1900}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27173| page=1715|date=13 March 1900}}</ref> during the [[Second Boer War]], and returned to the Yorkshire Hussars when he resigned from active duty in July 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27454|page=4513| date=15 July 1902}}</ref>
-In 1885, Beckett was elected [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)|Whitby]], a seat he held until 1905, though he is rarely mentioned in Hansard.<ref>{{hansard-contribs | mr-ernest-beckett | Ernest Beckett }}</ref>  In 1886, he resumed the name Beckett in place of Denison. In 1905 he succeeded his uncle Lord Grimthorpe as 2nd Baron according to a special remainder in the letters patent, as well as in the family baronetcy.  However, he squandered much of his inherited family wealth and in 1905 he was also sacked as a senior partner in the family bank by his two brothers because of his expensive tastes and personal debts.  He had once commissioned a bronze bust of his then fiancée Eve Fairfax from the famous sculptor [[Auguste Rodin]] which he subsequently could not pay for.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/13/book-secrets-michael-holroyd-review|title=A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd – review|first=Kathryn|last=Hughes|date=12 November 2010|publisher=|accessdate=23 August 2016|work=The Guardian}}</ref>
+In 1885, Beckett was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)|Whitby]], a seat he held until 1905, though he is rarely mentioned in Hansard.<ref>{{hansard-contribs | mr-ernest-beckett | Ernest Beckett }}</ref> In 1886, he resumed the name Beckett in place of Denison. In 1905, he succeeded his uncle Lord Grimthorpe as 2nd Baron according to a special remainder in the letters patent, as well as in the family baronetcy. However, he squandered much of his inherited family wealth and in 1905 he was also sacked as a senior partner in the family bank by his two brothers because of his expensive tastes and personal debts. He had once commissioned a bronze bust of his then fiancée Eve Fairfax from the famous sculptor [[Auguste Rodin]].
+In a 2010 biographical study, [[Michael Holroyd]] described Beckett as 'a man of swiftly changing enthusiasms ... a dilettante, philanderer, gambler and opportunist. He changed his career, his interests and his mistresses quite regularly.'<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/a-book-of-secrets-by-michael-holroyd-book-review.html|title=Vita and Violet: The Greatest Bloomsbury Love Story|date=7 August 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref>
-===Family===
-Beckett is believed to have been the father of [[Violet Trefusis]] (1894–1972), whose mother, [[Alice Keppel]] was a mistress of [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | first=Clare L. | last=Taylor | title=Trefusis, Violet (1894–1972) | encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2004 | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/76253 | accessdate=29 November 2007}}</ref>  In a recent biographical study, [[Michael Holroyd]] describes Beckett as 'a man of swiftly changing enthusiasms ... a dilettante, philanderer, gambler and opportunist. He changed his career, his interests and his mistresses quite regularly.'<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/a-book-of-secrets-by-michael-holroyd-book-review.html|title=Vita and Violet: The Greatest Bloomsbury Love Story|date=7 August 2011|work=The New York Times|accessdate=23 August 2016}}</ref>
-===Italy===
+=== Italy ===
-In 1904, Beckett bought a ruined farmhouse outside [[Ravello]], on the [[Amalfi Coast]] in southern [[Italy]]. He transformed it into a fortified palace with towers, battlements and a mixture of Arabic, Venetian and Gothic details, and called it [[Villa Cimbrone]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villacimbrone.com/en/storia3.php |title=Villa Cimbrone: history |accessdate=29 November 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511014640/http://www.villacimbrone.com/en/storia3.php |archivedate=11 May 2008 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}</ref> Between the house and the cliff edge he built a garden, high above the Gulf of Salerno. The garden is an eccentric mixture of formal, English rose beds, Moorish tea houses, picturesque grottoes and classical temples. Today the house is a luxurious hotel, and the garden is open to the public.
+In 1904, Beckett bought a ruined farmhouse outside [[Ravello]], on the [[Amalfi Coast]] in southern [[Italy]]. He transformed it into a fortified palace with towers, battlements and a mixture of Arabic, Venetian and Gothic details, and called it [[Villa Cimbrone]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villacimbrone.com/en/storia3.php |title=Villa Cimbrone: history |access-date=29 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511014640/http://www.villacimbrone.com/en/storia3.php |archive-date=11 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Between the house and the cliff edge, he built a garden, high above the Gulf of Salerno. The garden is an eccentric mixture of formal, English rose beds, Moorish tea houses, picturesque grottoes and classical temples. Today the house is a luxurious hotel, and the garden is open to the public.
-===Death===
+== Personal life ==
+On 4 October 1883, Ernest married an American, Lucy Tracy Lee, the only child of William Pray Lee and Lucy Eldredge Tracy when he was 26 and she was 18.<ref name="Depew2013">{{cite book |last1=Depew, Chauncey M. |author-link=Chauncey M. Depew |title=Titled Americans, 1890: A list of American ladies who have married foreigners of rank |date=2013 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78366-005-6 |page=91 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkrDCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91 |access-date=5 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Lucy died on 9 May 1891, six days after their son's birth. They had three children:
-Lord Grimthorpe died in April 1917, aged 60. He was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son, [[Ralph William Ernest Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe|Ralph William Ernest Beckett]]. Lord Grimthorpe's younger brother, [[Gervase Beckett]], also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament and was created a baronet in 1921 (see [[Beckett baronets]]).His ashes are interred in the gardens of his beloved Villa Cimbrone. <ref>{{cite web
-|url=http://www.minorsights.com/2016/05/italy-gardens-of-villa-cimbrone.html|title=The Gardens of Villa Cimbrone|accessdate= 1 May 2016 |publisher=Minor Sights}}</ref>
+* [[L.C. Beckett|Lucy Catherine Beckett]] (born 1884), who married Count [[Count Otto von Czernin|Otto Czernin von und zu Chudenitz]], the [[Austro-Hungarian ambassadors#Bulgaria|Austro-Hungarian Minister to Bulgaria]], in 1903. They divorced in 1920 and she remarried to Captain Oliver Harry Frost, son of Robert Frost (not the [[Robert Frost|poet]]), in 1926 (divorced 1941).
-==Legacy==
+* Helen Muriel Beckett (1886–1916)
-His grandson, by his daughter Lucy, [[Czernin, Count Manfred Beckett|Manfred Beckett Czernin]] was a distinguished [[Royal Air Force]] pilot and [[Special Operations Executive]] operative.
+* [[Ralph Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe|Ralph William Ernest Beckett]] (1891–1963).
+Beckett is also believed to have been the father of [[Violet Trefusis]] (1894–1972), whose mother, [[Alice Keppel]] was a mistress of [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]].<ref>[[Michael Holroyd]], ''A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers'' (Chatto, 2010).</ref> Today, Violet is mainly remembered for her lengthy affair with the poet [[Vita Sackville-West]], which the two women continued after their respective marriages.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | first=Clare L. | last=Taylor | title=Trefusis, Violet (1894–1972) | encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | year=2004 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/76253 | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/76253 | access-date=29 November 2007}}</ref>
+He also fathered a son, Lancelot Ernest Cecil, in 1895 by the Johannesburg socialite and hostess José Brink Dale Lace, married to mining magnate, John Dale Lace. In 1901, Ernest became engaged to Eve Fairfax, but the engagement was broken a few years later. During this time, he commissioned a bust of Eve from sculptor [[Auguste Rodin]], which was the first of several Rodin made using Eve as a model. Rodin and Eve became close friends during the sittings for these busts.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
+Lord Grimthorpe died in April 1917, aged 60, at a [[sanatorium]] in [[Banchory]], [[Aberdeenshire]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary. Lord Grimthorpe |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000033/19170510/228/0008 |access-date=16 June 2023 |work=Birmingham Daily Post |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=10 May 1917 |page=8 col.5}}</ref> He was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his son, [[Ralph Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe|Ralph Beckett]]. Lord Grimthorpe's younger brother, [[Gervase Beckett]], also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament and was created a baronet in 1921 (see [[Beckett baronets]]). His ashes are interred in the gardens of his beloved Villa Cimbrone.<ref>{{cite web
+|url=http://www.minorsights.com/2016/05/italy-gardens-of-villa-cimbrone.html|title=The Gardens of Villa Cimbrone|access-date= 1 May 2016 |publisher=Minor Sights}}</ref>
+=== Descendants ===
+His only son was the father of [[Christopher Beckett, 4th Baron Grimthorpe|Christopher John Beckett]], who became the 4th Baron Grimthorpe upon Ralph's death in 1963. Another grandson, by his daughter Lucy, [[Czernin, Count Manfred Beckett|Manfred Beckett Czernin]] (1913–1962) was a distinguished [[Royal Air Force]] pilot and [[Special Operations Executive]] operative.
+== Legacy ==
 In Leeds, [[Beckett Park]] is named after Lord Grimthorpe.
+In 2013, it was announced that the Board of Governors at [[Leeds Metropolitan University]] had applied to the privy council to change their name to Leeds Beckett University, named after the location of the university's founding colleges, Beckett Park.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-23488414|title=Leeds Metropolitan aims to become Leeds Beckett University|work=BBC News|access-date=23 August 2016}}</ref>
-;Leeds Beckett University
-In 2013, it was announced that the Board of Governors at [[Leeds Metropolitan University]] had applied to the privy council to change their name to Leeds Beckett University, named after the location of the university's founding colleges [[Beckett Park]]. <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-23488414|title=Leeds Metropolitan aims to become Leeds Beckett University|first=|last=|publisher=|work=BBC News|accessdate=23 August 2016}}</ref>
+== Arms ==
+{{Emblem table
+|image = Grimthorpe Achievement.png
+|escutcheon = Gules a fess between three boars’ heads couped Erminois.
+|crest = A boar’s head couped Or pierced by a cross patée fitchée erect Gules.
+|supporters = Two sangliers Erminois each gorged with a collar and pendant therefrom an escutcheon Gules charged with a cross patée fitchée Or.
+|motto = Prodesse Civibus (To Serve The State)<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1921}}</ref>}}
 == References ==
-{{reflist}}
+{{Reflist|30em}}
-==Further reading==
-[[Michael Holroyd]], ''A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers'' (Chatto, 2010).
 == External links ==
+{{Commons category-inline|Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe}}
 * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-ernest-beckett | Ernest Beckett }}
 *[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/28/michael-holroyd-family-history-eve-fairfax Family secrets] by [[Michael Holroyd]]
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+[[Category:UK MPs 1900–1906|Beckett, Ernest]]
-[[Category:UK MPs 1895–1900|Beckett, Ernest William]]
+[[Category:UK MPs who inherited peerages|Beckett, Ernest]]
-[[Category:UK MPs 1900–06|Beckett, Ernest William]]
 [[Category:Yorkshire Hussars officers]]
+[[Category:Beckett family|Ernest]]