The Right Honble Wiiliam Beckford Esq. Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London.

J Dixon

The Right Honble Wiiliam Beckford Esq. Lord Mayor & Member of Parliament for the City of London.

London, Carrington Bowles ca 1770

Mezzotint

340 x 250

Trimmed to image

£140

Sir William Beckford (December 1709 – 21 June 1770) was a British Whig politician who twice served as Lord Mayor of London in 1762 and 1769. One of the best known political figures in Georgian era London, his vast wealth derived from the sugar plantations and hundreds of slaves he owned in the British colony of Jamaica. In Britain, Beckford was a supporter of the Whig party, including Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. He also publicly supported progressive causes and frequently championed the London public