Cyril Beeson
| Cyril Beeson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 February 1889 Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Died | 3 November 1975 (aged 86) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | City of Oxford High School for Boys |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
| Occupation |
entomologist; antiquarian horologist |
Cyril Frederick Cherrington Beeson CIE, D.Sc. (1889–1975) was an English entomologist and forest conservator who worked in India. Beeson was an expert on forest entomology who wrote numerous papers on insects, and whose book on Indian forest insects remains a standard work on the subject. After his retirement and return to England he became an antiquarian horologist.
Beeson was born in Oxford on 10 February 1889 to Walter Thomas Beeson and Rose Eliza Beeson, née Clacey. Walter Beeson was Surveyor to St John's College, Oxford.
Cyril Beeson got married to Marion Cossentine in 1922 and they had a daughter, Barbara Rose, who was born circa 1925. Beeson's first wife died in 1946 after a long period of ill-health. In 1971, aged 82, Beeson got married to his second wife, Margaret Carbury.
Beeson died on 3 November 1975.
Beeson attended City of Oxford High School for Boys, where his best friend was T. E. Lawrence (better remembered today as Lawrence of Arabia). Lawrence called him by his nickname of "Scroggs".
At the age of 15 Beeson and Lawrence bicycled around Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, visited almost every village's parish church, studied their monuments and antiquities and made rubbings of their monumental brasses. The two schoolboys monitored building sites in Oxford and presented their finds to the Ashmolean Museum. The Ashmolean's Annual Report for 1906 said that the pair "by incessant watchfulness secured everything of antiquarian value which has been found". In the summers of 1906 and 1907 Beeson and Lawrence toured France by bicycle, collecting photographs, drawings and measurements of medieval castles. Beeson made many of the drawings that Lawrence used in his thesis The influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture – to the end of the 12th century, which was published in 1936 as Crusader Castles.
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