Career
His book on Lovecraft, Lovecraft"s Providence and Adjacent Parts, was published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Incorporated. in 1979. Mr. Beckwith was elected in 1969 Secretary of the Committee on Heraldry (1864) of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (until it ceased to exist, the oldest existing unofficial body concerned with the subject) succeeding a distant kinsman, Harold Bowditch, Doctor of Medicine, elected 1924. He has served as Secretary of the successor North.H.G.S. Heraldry Committee, created 2000, to date.
He was a Trustee (now Trustee Emeritus) of The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace, North Kingstown, Rhode Island (established 1932), third generation of his family to do southern
He has served as a trustee of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and on other private boards, and state and municipal, committees. In politics he is an Independent, and in religion his beliefs are latitudinarian.
Mr. Beckwith"s memberships in hereditary and patriotic organizations include the following -
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Rhode Island (Secretary)
Order of the Crown in America
Saint Nicholas Society of The City of New York
General Society of Colonial Wars (former Governor of the Rhode Island Society)
Colonial Order of the Acorn
Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter
Aztec Club of 1847 (representing Major Julian MacAllister, United States of America)
Order of Founders and Patriots of America
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (representing Major Francis Marion Cutler, United States of America)
Order of Indian Wars of the United States
General Society Sons of the Revolution
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Artillery Company of Newport, Rhode Island (Descended from Captain Jahleel Brenton, its first commanding officer).
