Background
Beckett was the son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, of Grimthorpe, Yorkshire and his wife Maria Beverley, daughter of William Beverley.
Beckett was the son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, of Grimthorpe, Yorkshire and his wife Maria Beverley, daughter of William Beverley.
He died when he fell under a train. He was head of banking firm of Beckett & Company at Leeds, Doncaster and Retford, and of the East Riding Bank at Beverley and Malton. He was a captain in the Yorkshire Hussar Yeomanry Cavalry and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
At the 1885 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw.
He held the seat until his death in 1890. Beckett died at the age of 64 when he fell under a train at Wimborne.
He had arrived at Wimborne railway station to change trains for Bournemouth, and while waiting went for a walk. He was walking beside the track on the way back to the station when a strong wind blew his hat off and he fell almost immediately under the train.
His body was cut to pieces and carried some 56 feet.
Beckett married the Honorary Helen Duncombe, daughter of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham in 1855. They were the parents of Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Baronet.
Some money was paid but the case came before court and the jury declared Mrs Brinkworth"s case to be a "swindle" and rejected her claims even before the evidence in the case had been completed.
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In 1876 Beckett was elected Member of Parliament for East Retford but lost the seat in 1880.
