Frederick William Beechey
1796–1856
Naval officer and hydrographer. Participated in exploration and surveying voyages to the Arctic, Africa, South America, and Ireland. Superintendent of the marine department of the Board of Trade, 1850–6. President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1855. FRS 1824.
Sources
ODNB
Past Fellows of the Royal Society (https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/PersonSearch.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons, accessed 1 June 2022)
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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