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Beckett baronets of Kirkdale Manor (1921)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ123677015 ↗
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The Beckett baronetcy of Kirkdale Manor, Nawton in the North Riding of the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 June 1921 for the newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician Gervase Beckett. He represented Whitby, Scarborough and Whitby and Leeds North in the House of Commons. Beckett was the nephew of the first Baron Grimthorpe and the younger brother of the second Baron.

Beckett baronets, of Kirkdale Manor (1921)

Sir (William) Gervase Beckett, 1st Baronet (1866–1937)

Sir Martyn Gervase Beckett, 2nd Baronet (1918–2001), architect

Sir Richard Gervase Beckett, 3rd Baronet, KC (born 1944).

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Walter Gervase Beckett (born 1987).

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“Beckett baronets of Kirkdale Manor (1921)” enters the record as baronetcy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beckett, baronets and Kirkdale can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 1866, 1937, 1918—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Beckett, baronets and Kirkdale.
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“Beckett baronets of Kirkdale Manor (1921)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beckett, baronets and Kirkdale provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123677015. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1866, 1937 and 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beckett baronets of Kirkdale Manor (1921)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.