Education
Beeson was educated at King"s College London, studied theology at Street Boniface College, Warminster, and ordained in 1952.
Beeson was educated at King"s College London, studied theology at Street Boniface College, Warminster, and ordained in 1952.
He is also an ecclesiastical obituarist. He began his career with a curacy in Leadgate, County Durham, after which he was Priest in charge of Street Chad, Stockton-on-Tees and then on the staff of Street Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square. Following this he was Vicar of Ware, Hertfordshire and Canon Treasurer of Westminster.
He served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1982 to 1987, before his elevation to the Deanery.
In retirement Beeson has written a book about his fellow Deans. In 1976 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on Beeson the Lambeth degree of Master of Arts.