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Beriah Botfield

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He inherited the family's extensive coal mining and ironmaking business, which was based in Shropshire. Perhaps not so surprisingly, Beriah Botfield entered into political affairs.
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Beriah was a well known bibliographer who set up a private printing press at his home in Norton Hall. Among the works which he printed there was an anonymous
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near the Wales–England border on Shadwell Hill, to commemorate a pedlar named William Cantlin who was robbed and murdered there in 1691.
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He served as a Cornet in the South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1845, and was treasurer of the
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
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Bibliotheca Hearniana—excerpts from the Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Hearne
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Shropshire
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The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
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for presenting a collection of British minerals to the royal collection at
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after presenting a taxidermy collection of British birds to
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In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary
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in a by-election and held the seat until a defeat in the
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On 21 October 1858, Beriah married Isabella Leighton in
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Beriah Botfield died on 7 August 1863, at his home at
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Article by W.P. Courtney revised by A.S.G. Edwards.
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Journal of a Tour through the Highlands of Scotland
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Index

FRS
FRSE
FSA
FRGS
British Member of Parliament
Ludlow
Shropshire
Conservative
Earl's Ditton
Thomas Botfield, F.R.S.
Northamptonshire
William Withering
Harrow School
Christ Church
Oxford University
Northamptonshire
Member of Parliament
Ludlow
1847 general election
stone cross
Fellow of the Royal Society
British Archaeological Association
Order of Albert the Brave
Saxony
Dresden
Order of Leopold (Belgium)
Brussels
Salop Infirmary
Shrewsbury
Grosvenor Square

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