Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.

He was a younger son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, brother of Gilbert Arthur à Beckett and educated at Felsted School.

Besides fulfilling other journalistic engagements, Beckett was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, edited the Sunday Times 1891-1895, and the Naval and Military Magazine in 1896.

Josh Beckett was named the Most Valuable Player for the series after twirling a five-hit complete-game shutout in Game 6.

* Josh Beckett ( 2001 – 2005 ) — Beckett was drafted by the Marlins in the first round ( 2nd overall ) of the 1999 Amateur Draft.

* Hanley Ramirez ( 2006 – 2012 )-As the main piece of the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell trade in the 2005 off-season, Ramirez was the face of the franchise during his tenure and a major offensive cog, having a 30-30 season in 2008, winning a batting title and finishing 2nd in MVP voting in 2009, and participating in three All-Star games.

Gilbert Arthur à Beckett ( 1837 – October 15, 1891 ) was an English writer.

He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett and of J. M. Synge, providing illustrations for two of Synge's travel books, The Aran Islands and Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara.

This decision was appealed in Donaldson v Beckett, and eventually went to the House of Lords.

Samuel Beckett was also fond of Surrealists, even translating much of the poetry into English.

Adorno began writing an introduction to a collection of poetry by Rudolf Borchardt, which was connected with a talk entitled " Charmed Language ," delivered in Zurich, followed by a talk on aesthetics in Paris where he met Beckett again.

'" " The bowler hat was of course de rigueur for male persons in many social contexts when Beckett was growing up in Foxrock ( when he first came back with his beret ... his mother suggested that he was letting the family down by not wearing a bowler ), and father commonly wore one.

" When he explained to Beckett that he was playing Lucky as if he were suffering from Parkinson's, Beckett said, "' Yes, of course.

When Beckett was asked why Lucky was so named, he replied, " I suppose he is lucky to have no more expectations ..."

" When Colin Duckworth asked Beckett point-blank whether Pozzo was Godot, the author replied: ' No. It is just implied in the text, but it's not true.

Of the two boys who work for Godot only one appears safe from beatings, " Beckett said, only half-jokingly, that one of Estragon's feet was saved ".

Then there is Samuel Beckett, born in 1906, a writer with roots in the expressionist tradition of modernism, who produced works from the 1930s until the 1980s, including Molloy ( 1951 ), En attendant Godot ( 1953 ), Happy Days ( 1961 ), Rockaby ( 1981 ).

Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954 ) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards.

Joan à Beckett Weigall was born in St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia, the third daughter of They're à Beckett Weigall, a prominent judge who was related to the Boyd family, perhaps Australia's most famous and prolific artistic dynasty.

Many other Absurdists were born elsewhere but lived in France, writing often in French: Samuel Beckett from Ireland ; Eugène Ionesco from Romania ; Arthur Adamov from Russia ; Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal from Spain.

He was born at Beckett Hall in Shrivenham in Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ), the home of his father, John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington and educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford.

* January 14-Arthur William à Beckett, journalist ( born 1844 )

His third wife ( 1991-present ) is Kelley Kuhr, 24 years his junior, with whom he has three children: Beckett Taylor ( b. 29 January 2004 ), Finnian Anderson ( b. 23 December 2006 ), and Seamus Hudson ( born 7 January 2009 ).

* October 15-Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer ( born 1837 )

Margaret Mary Beckett ( née Jackson ; born 15 January 1943 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Derby South since 1983, rising to become the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith, from 18 July 1992 to 12 May 1994, and briefly serving as Leader of the Party following Smith's death.

Margaret Beckett was born Margaret Jackson in 1943, in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire into a working-class family.

Joshua Patrick Beckett ( born May 15, 1980 ) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.

Beckett was born in Spring, Texas, and has been linked to such celebrities as model / sportcaster Leeann Tweeden and country singer Danielle Peck.

Baddiel has two children with his girlfriend, fellow comedian Morwenna Banks: a daughter, Dolly Loveday ( born 2001 ) and a son, Ezra Beckett ( born 2004 ).

Joyce's high modernism had its influence on coming generations of Irish novelists, most notably Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 1989 ), Brian O ' Nolan ( 1912 – 1966 ), who published as both Flann O ' Brien and Myles na Gopaleen, and Aidan Higgins ( born 1927 ).

* Edward John Beckett, 5th Baron Grimthorpe ( born 1954 )

Harry Maximillian Beckett ( born 1993 )

John David Beckett, Baron Taylor of Warwick ( born 21 September 1952 ) is a member of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, currently on licence from prison and suspended from Parliament.

Kent Walton ( 22 August 1917 – 24 August 2003 ), born Kenneth Walton Beckett, was a British television sports commentator and presenter.

During her partnership with Melissa Etheridge, she gave birth to two children, a daughter, Bailey Jean, born in February 1997, and a son, Beckett, born November 1998.

Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, " simple and earnest, rather cause us to wonder at the hidden depths of this reticent president ".

* Samuel Beckett: in 1930, while teaching at Trinity College Dublin, Samuel Beckett read a learned paper in French on a Toulouse author named Jean du Chas, founder of a movement called Concentrism.

Beckett also alludes to the comedy team specifically in his novel Watt ( 1953 ), when a healthy shrub is described at one point as " a hardy laurel.

In the first stage production, which Beckett oversaw, both are " more shabby-genteel than ragged ... Vladimir at least is capable of being scandalised ... on a matter of etiquette when Estragon begs for chicken bones or money.

Beckett himself sanctioned " one of the most famous mixed-race productions of Godot, performed at the Baxter Theatre in the University of Cape Town, directed by Donald Howarth, with [...] two black actors, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, playing Didi and Gogo ; Pozzo, dressed in checked shirt and gumboots reminiscent of an Afrikaner landlord, and Lucky (' a shanty town piece of white trash ') were played by two white actors, Bill Flynn and Peter Piccolo [...].

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

* Theyre à Beckett Weigall ( 1860-1926 ) Gravesite at Brighton General Cemetery

Steve Beckett, co-owner of Warp, has said that the electronic music the label was releasing at that point was targeting a post-club, home-listening audience.

Ionesco, Adamov, and Arrabal for example, were friends with Surrealists still living in Paris at the time including Paul Eluard and André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, and Beckett translated many Surrealist poems by Breton and others from French into English.

* On the October 28 of that year, Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

Inspired both by American free jazz and by the radical, abstract music of AMM, as well as influences as diverse as Anton Webern and Samuel Beckett ( two Stevens touchstones ), the SME kept at least a measure of jazz in their sound, though this became less audible in the later " string " ensembles.

Beckett is located at ( 39. 755233 ,-75. 356664 ).

There is a privately owned airstrip at Beckett Farm in Tularosa.

Beckett Ridge is located at ( 39. 349272 ,-84. 438855 ).