Entries for the tag ‘Beckett Denison, Edmund (1816-1905)’
Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet, then 1st Baron Grimthorpe: lawyer, mechanician, controversialist, horologist, architect. 
- 22 December 1857: With only a small clock planned for Cuthbert Brodrick’s over-budget town hall, Leeds Council absents itself from a talk by Edmund Beckett, designer of the mechanism for Big Ben
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