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# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cockburn, Sir William, Baronet

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​COCKBURN, SIR WILLIAM, BARONET (1768–1835)
Son of Colonel James Cockburn : born in a camp in 1768 : entered the Army when only 10 years old : in the American war, and a captain at 15 : in India 1790–1802 : in the first Mysore war, and at Seringapatam in 1792, where he acted as Engineer : Lt-General, 1821 : died March 19. 1835.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cleghorn, James

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​CLEGHORN, JAMES (1841–)
Son of John Cleghorn : born 1841 : educated at Edinburgh University and Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh : M.D. St. Andrew's : entered Indian Medical Service, 1865 : served in the Bhutan campaign, 1864–5 : and rose to be Director-General of the I.M.S. and Sanitary Commissioner, 1895 : Fellow of the Allahabad University : retired, 1898 : published various medical papers : Hony. Surgeon to H.M. the King : C.S.I.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Clinton, Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis, twentieth Baron

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​CLINTON, CHARLES HENRY ROLLE TREFUSIS, TWENTIETH BARON (1834–1904)
Son of the 19th Baron : born 1834 : educated at Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford : M.P. 1857–66, when he succeeded to the peerage : Under Secretary of State for India, 1867–8 : Charity Commissioner : died March 29, 1904.
# Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010

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An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
    That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes, namely:
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    This Act may be cited as the "Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010".
Approved October 28, 2009.

## Notes

* ↑ Note: A Table of Contents was not provided in the original text; an abbreviated one has been added here strictly for navigational and editorial purposes. In the original text, Title I came immediately after the Enacting Clause.

## Legislative History

* H.R. 2892, (S. 1298)
   * HOUSE REPORTS:
   ** No. 111-157 (Comm. on Appropriations)
   ** No. 111-298 (Comm. of Conference)
   * SENATE REPORTS:
   ** No. 111-31 accompanying S. 1298 (Comm. on Appropriations)
   * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 155 (2009):
   ** June 24, considered and passed House.
   ** July 9, considered and passed Senate, amended.
   ** Oct. 13, Conference report filed.
   ** Oct. 15, House agreed to conference report.
   ** Oct. 20, Senate agreed to conference report.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beckford, William (d.1799)

​BECKFORD, WILLIAM (d. 1799), historian, passed a great part of his life in Jamaica, where he made observations on the country and particularly on the condition of the negroes. On returning to England he settled at Somerley Hall in Suffolk, and died in London on 5 Feb. 1799.
His works are:
* 'Remarks on the Situation of the Negroes in Jamaica, impartially made from a local experience of nearly thirteen years in that island,' 1788.
* 'A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica, with Remarks upon the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane throughout the different seasons of the year, and chiefly considered in a picturesque point of view,' 1790.
* 'History of France from the most early records to the death of Louis XVI,' 1794. The early part is by Beckford, and the more modern by an anonymous Englishman who had been sometime resident in Paris.
[Gent. Mag. vol. lxix. pt. i.; Monthly Review, lxxix. 69; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Watt's Bibl. Brit.]
A. G-n.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beckley, William

​BECKLEY, WILLIAM (d. 1438), Carmelite, was born in Kent, probably in the neighbourhood of Sandwich, where he appears to have entered the order of the Carmelites in early life. While still young he proceeded to Cambridge, where the Carmelites had had a house since the year 1291. Here he seems to have taken his doctor's degree in divinity, and to have established a considerable reputation as a theologian. Bale praises his modesty of speech, and his firm proceedings against evildoers in all the assemblies ('conventibus') over which he presided. This incidental remark would alone prove him to have been a man of mark among the English Carmelites, even without the next sentence, in which we are told that while Beckley was engaged in the king's business Thomas Walden used to protect his interests at Cambridge against the complaints of his fellow-doctors there. Tanner makes mention of a letter from the chancellor and university of Cambridge ​to the provincial chapter of the Carmelites at Northampton, referring to a charge that had been brought against Beckley for his absence from the university 'anno primo regentiæ' for which offence he had been suspended. He also notices Walden's reply to this letter. In his old age, after having spent many years at Cambridge, Beckley seems to have withdrawn to his native place, Sandwich, where, according to Bale, he became head of the Carmelite friary, and devoted the remainder of his life to study. On his death, which occurred in 1438, he was buried in the last-mentioned town, and the Latin verses inscribed upon his tomb, and probably written by himself, are preserved in Weever's 'Funeral Monuments.' Dempster has claimed Beckley as a Scotch monk, and gives several details of his life, how he was exiled from Scotland and took up his abode in France, whence he was recalled by James III, but apparently preferred to remain in England when once he set foot in that country on his return journey. But the authorities to whom Dempster appeals, 'Gilbert Brown' (d. 1612), and P. M. Thomas Sarracenus, an ex-professor of Bologna, can hardly be accepted as sufficient testimony for these statements in the face of so much contrary evidence. The tradition of a residence in France may, however, contain some degree of truth when we consider Bale's plain statement as to Beckley's being employed in royal business, and his subsequent statement that Beckley delivered declamations to the nobility and chief officers in many parts of England, and in Calais also. The chief works assigned to this author are similar in their titles to those of most mediæval theologians, and consist of 'Quodlibeta,' 'Quæstiones Ordinariæ,' 'Conciones Variæ,' and one which, had it been preserved, might perhaps have been of some slight interest, entitled 'De Fraterculorum Decimis.'
T. A. A.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beckingham, Charles

​BECKINGHAM, CHARLES (1699–1731), poet and dramatist, was born, according to the register of Merchant Taylors' School, on 25 July 1699 (Robinson's Register, ii. 32). His father was a linendraper in Fleet Street. Beckingham was educated at Merchant Taylors' School under Dr. Smith, and is said to have displayed 'great proficiency in his studies,' and given 'the strongest testimonials of extraordinary abilities.' Nothing in his works justifies these eulogies. On 18 Feb. 1718 'Scipio Africanus,' an historical tragedy in the regulation five acts, was produced at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. This was followed at the same house on 7 Nov. of the next year by a second work of a similar description, entitled 'Henry IV of France.' The youth of the author, and the presence of a large number of his fellow-students who had been permitted to visit the theatre, gave some éclat to the production of the earlier work. This, however, is but an average specimen of academic labour. A chief subject of praise in contemporary writers is the manner in which the so-called unities are observed by its author. The plot is founded on a story told by Livy (xxvi. 49-50) and other classical writers concerning the restoration of a beautiful captive by Scipio Africanus to Allucius, a Spaniard. A considerable portion of the play consists of tedious love scenes, which are necessarily fictitious. Quin played Scipio. 'Scipio Africanus' was acted four times in all, two performances being, it is stated, for the author's benefit. It was printed in 12mo in 1718. 'Henry IV of France' deals with the jealousy of the Prince of Condé of his wife, who is in love with the king, and ends with the murder of Henry by Ravaillac at the instigation of the papal nuncio and the priests. This play was also given four times, Quin appearing as Henry IV. It was printed in 8vo in 1820. In addition to these dramas Beckingham wrote a poem on the death of Rowe, the dramatist; a second entitled 'Christ's Sufferings, translated from the Latin of Rapin,' and dedicated to the Archbishop of York; and other minor poems. He died 19 Feb. 1730-31.
J. K.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beckingham, Elias de

​BECKINGHAM, ELIAS de (d. 1305?), judge, was placed on the commission of justices for Middlesex in 1274, but immediately removed. At this time he seems to have held the rank of king's serjeant. He received the commission of justice of assize [for a brief account of the nature and origin of which see under Batesford, John de] in 1276. In 1282-3 he acted as keeper of the rolls of the common pleas, and in 1285 was appointed one of the justices of that bench. In 1289, grave complaints of the maladministration of justice and the venality of the judges being rife, a searching inquiry was instituted, and Beckingham was the only one of the five justices of the common pleas who was not dismissed for corruption. He appears to have continued in the discharge of his duties until 1305, for he was regularly summoned to parliament as a justice between 1288 and 1305. From the fact that he was no longer summoned to parliament after the latter date, it may be inferred that he died or retired before the date when parliament next met. He was interred in the church of Bottisham, in Cambridgeshire, where a monument
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beckford, Peter

1904 Errata appended.
​BECKFORD, PETER (1740–1811), eminent sportsman and master of foxhounds, was the son of Julines Beckford, of Stapleton. Dorset, and grandson of Peter Beckford, governor and commander-in-chief of Jamaica, He was thus cousin to William Beckford, the celebrated lord mayor of London. His pre-eminence among foxhunters is due to the fact that he was the first English writer to describe minutely and accurately the whole system of the sport of hunting. This he did in a work entitled 'Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting; also an account of the most celebrated Dog Kennels in the Kingdom,' Sarum, sm. 4to, 1781, 1796, 1820. 'Never,' says a writer (Sir Egerton Brydges?) in the 'Retrospective Review' (xiii. 231), 'had fox or hare the honour of being chased to death by so accomplished a hunter; never was huntsman's dinner graced by such urbanity and wit. He would bag a fox in Greek, find a hare in Latin, inspect his kennels in Italian, and direct the economy of his stables in exquisite French.' In 1781 Beckford published 'Essays on Hunting; containing a philosophical inquiry into the nature and properties of Scent; on different kinds of Hounds, Hares, &c., with an introduction describing the method of Hare-hunting among the Greeks,' London, 8vo.
In 1773 he married Louisa, daughter of Lord Rivers, and by a special patent, granted in 1802, his son William Horace succeeded to the barony, and became the third Lord Rivers. Peter Beckford sat in parliament, as representative of Morpeth, in 1768.
In 1787, just before the outbreak of the French revolution, he travelled in Italy, and wrote an entertaining account of his journey, which was published some years later under the title of 'Familiar Letters from Italy to a Friend in England,' 2 vols. 8vo, Salisbury, 1805. Here he described visits to Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrities. In Turin, he writes, he had met Sterne in 1765, and had 'passed hours with that eccentric genius that might have been more profitably employed, but never more agreeably.' He seasons nearly every letter with anecdotes, both grave and gay, and makes remarks, political and philosophical, that must have astounded the country squire of later days. That he was an extensive reader of classical and modern literature is proved by the tenor of both his published works. He died on 18 Feb. 1811, and was buried in Stapleton church, where the following doggerel was inscribed above his grave:–
    We die and are forgotten; 'tis Heaven's decree:
    Thus the fate of others will be the fate of me. ​[Hutchins's Dorset, iii.; Retrospective Review, iii. 231; Watt's Biblioth. Brit. 91w.; Apperley on the Horse; Beatson's Parl. Register, ii. 172.]R. H.
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# Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads/A Ballad of Burial

Garden City New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, pages 63–65
A BALLAD OF BURIAL
"Saint Praxed's ever was the Church for peace."
If down here I chance to die, Solemnly I beg you take All that is left of "I" To the Hills for old sake's sake. Pack, and pack me thoroughly, In the ice that used to slake Drinks I drank when I was dry— This observe for old sake's sake.
To the railway station hie, There a single ticket take For Umballa—goods-train—I Shall not mind delay or shake. I shall rest contentedly Spite of clamour coolies make; Thus in frozen dignity Send me up for old sake's sake.
​Next the sleepy van Babu wake, Book a Kalka van "for four." Few, I think, will care to make Journeys with me any more As they used to do of yore. I shall need a "special" break— Thing I never took before— Get me one for old sake's sake.
After that—arrangements make, No hotel will take me in, And a bullock's back would break 'Neath the teak and leaden skin. Tonga-ropes are frail and thin, Or, did I a back seat take, In a tonga I might spin, Do your best for old sake's sake.
After that—your work is done. Recollect a Padre must Mourn the dear departed one— Throw the ashes and the dust. Don't go down at once. I trust You will find excuse to "snake ​Three days' casual on the bust,"— Get your fun for old sake's sake.
I could never stand the Plains, Think of blazing June and May, Think of those September rains Yearly till the Judgment Day! I should never rest in peace, I should sweat and lie awake. Rail me then, on my decease, To the Hills for old sake's sake.
# Department of Treasury of Indiana v. Wood Preserving Corporation

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United States Supreme Court
313 U.S. 62
Department of Treasury of Indiana v. Wood Preserving Corporation
Argued: April 1, 1941. --- Decided: April 28, 1941
Messrs. Joseph P. McNamara and Joseph W. Hutchinson, both of Indianapolis, Ind., for petitioners.
Mr. Harry T. Ice, of Indianapolis, Ind., for respondent.
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Departmental Ditties

See also: Barrack-Room Ballads
* Departmental Ditties and other verses (1886)
* Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1890)
* Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1899, 1914, 1919)
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bexfield, William Richard

​BEXFIELD, WILLIAM RICHARD (1824–1853), musical composer, was born at Norwich on 27 April 1824, entered the cathedral choir at the age of seven, and studied music under the organist, Dr. Buck, to whom he was articled. He learnt the violin, trumpet, trombone, and drum, but he excelled as an organist when still quite young. On the expiration of his articles he obtained the post of organist at the parish church of Boston, Lincolnshire, and on 16 Nov. 1846 took the degree of Mus. Bac. at Oxford, where his name was entered at New College. His degree exercise was a canon in five parts. On the death of Dr. Crotch he became a candidate for the professorial chair of music at Oxford, but without success, probably on account of his youth. In February 1848 he left Boston, having obtained the post of organist at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, the competition for which brought forward thirty-six candidates. In the following year he proceeded Mus. Doc. at Cambridge, his name being entered at Trinity College. In 1850 Dr. Bexfield married Miss Mellington, of Boston, by whom he had two children. Soon after his marriage he wrote the oratorio by which his name is best remembered, 'Israel Restored.' This work was produced by the Norwich Choral Society in October 1851, and was again performed at the Norwich Festival on 22 Sept. 1852, when the solo parts were sung by Madame Viardot, Misses Pyne, Dolby, and Alleyne, and Messrs. Sims Reeves, Gardoni, Lockey, Formes, Belletti, and Weiss. The excellence of much of the music was at once recognised; but the book was fatally dull, and the whole work suffered from being forced by a local clique into injudicious rivalry with H. H. Pierson's 'Jerusalem,' which was produced on the following day. Bexfield's other published works are a set of 'Organ fugues, a set of six songs (words by the composer), and a collection of anthems. He died at 12 Monmouth Road, Bayswater, on 28 Oct. 1853, too young to have fulfilled the expectation aroused by the talents he displayed.
[Annual Register, 1863, p. 267; Gent. Mag. for 1854, pt. i. pp. 102-3; Musical Directory, 1864 ; Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 239; Catalogue of Oxford Graduates, 1851; Luard's Graduati Cantabrigienses, 1760-1866; Musical Times, Oct. 1862.]
W. B. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bewick, Robert Elliot

​BEWICK, ROBERT ELLIOT (1788–1849), wood engraver, was the only son of Thomas Bewick [q. v.]. He was born on 26 April 1788, and was brought up to his father's business. In 1812 he became Thomas Bewick's partner. He designed with great care, and, as an engraver, was laboriously minute and accurate, but seems never to have developed the latent talent which his father believed him to possess (Memoir, p. 250). He assisted Thomas Bewick in the 'Fables of Æsop,' 1818, and in the illustrations and vignettes for the projected 'History of British Fishes,' which occupied his latter days. Some specimens of these are given in the 'Memoir.' One of them, 'The Maigre,' is engraved on copper by 'R. E. Bewick;' and Miss Bewick states (Memoir, p. 289) that her brother left behind him some 'fifty highly finished and accurately coloured drawings of fishes from nature,' together with some descriptive text, which he had prepared for the same never completed work. These drawings now form part of the Bewick bequest to the British Museum. Robert Bewick died unmarried ​27 July 1849, and is buried in Ovingham churchyard.
[Memoir of Thomas Bewick, &c.]
A. D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bibelesworth, Walter de

1904 Errata appended.
​BIBELESWORTH or BIBBESWORTH, WALTER de (fl. 1270), was author of two French poems. One of these consists of some French verses addressed to Lady Dyonisia de Mounchensy, composed with the object of teaching her the language. This poem is printed in Joseph Mayer's 'Library of National Antiquities,' i. 142, from two manuscripts in the British Museum. There is, however, another copy in the library of All Souls' College, Oxford (MS. 182), which differs considerably from the printed text, both in the French verse and the accompanying English gloss. Bibelesworth's other work is a dialogue between the author and Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln (1257-1312), on the subject of the crusade. The earl had taken the cross, but could not prevail upon himself to leave a lady whom he loved, which Bibelesworth endeavours to persuade him to do. The occasion of its composition was the expedition of Edward I, when prince, to the Holy Land in 1270, in which Bibelesworth took part, as appears from letters of protection granted to him in that year. This poem is printed in Wright and Halliwell's 'Reliquiæ Antiquæ,' i. 134.
Bibelesworth was possessed of the manors of Bibbysworth Hall in the parish of Kimpton, Hertfordshire, and of Saling, Latton, and Waltham in Essex. He died probably between 1277 and 1283, and was buried before St. Peter's altar in the church of Little Dunmow.
[ Morant's Essex, ii. 410; Chauncy's Hertfordshire, 415; Pat. Rolls 37 Hen. III, m. 12, 54 Hen. III, m. 15d; Charter Roll 5 Edw. I, n. 21.]
C. T. M.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bewley, William

The initials T. W. are apparently an error for T. W.-r. as the contributor listing for this volume only indicates this set for this volume. 1904 Errata appended.
​BEWLEY, WILLIAM (d. 1788), friend of Dr. Burney, was a native of Massingham, in Norfolk, where he practised medicine. He- made for himself some scientific reputation, and was a friend of Priestley, whom he once visited at Birmingham. But it is through his friendship with Dr. Burney that his name has been preserved. He is spoken of more than once in Madame d'Arblay's 'Memoirs of her Father.' We are told that on account of the simplicity of his life and the nature of his pursuits he was known as 'the philosopher of Massingham,' and that he was as remarkable for his wit and conversational powers as for the extent of his knowledge of science and literature. He died at Dr. Burney's house in St. Martin's Street, Leicester Square, on 5 Sept. 1783. An obituary notice of him was written by Dr. Burney' for the Norwich newspaper,' and is given in Madame d'Arblay's 'Memoirs.' It is here said that 'Mr. Bewley for more than twenty years supplied the editor of the "Monthly Review" with an examination of innumerable works in science and articles of foreign literature, written with a ​ force, spirit, candour, and — when the subject afforded opportunity — humour, not often found in critical discussions.'
[Madame d'Arblay's Memoirs of Dr. Barney, i. 105, 265, ii. 347; Gent. Mag. for 1783, ii. 805.]
T. W.
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