The most important works that occupied Flaxman in the years next following this appointment were the monument to Mrs Baring in Micheldever church, the richest of all his monuments in relief ( 1805 – 1811 ); that for the Worsley family at Campsall church, Yorkshire, which is the next richest ; those to Sir Joshua Reynolds for St Paul's ( 1807 ); to Captain Webbe for India ( 1810 ); to Captains Walker and Beckett for Leeds ( 1811 ); to Lord Cornwallis for Prince of Wales's Island ( 1812 ); and to Sir John Moore for Glasgow ( 1813 ).

Headingley is notable for being the location of the Beckett Park campus for Leeds Metropolitan University and Headingley Stadium.

The area has a history of student inhabitation, with Leeds Metropolitan University having a campus at Beckett Park in Headingley.

He became a partner in the banking firm of Beckett & Co, of Leeds.

He was a partner in the Leeds firm of Beckett & Co., which later became part of the Westminster Bank, and in the aeronautical firm Airspeed Ltd. His racehorses included Fortina, which won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1947, and Fragrant Mac, which won the Scottish Grand National in 1952.

** William Beckett ( MP ) ( 1784 – 1863 ), English politician, Member of Parliament for Leeds and Ripon

Beckett is a census-designated place and unincorporated area of Logan Township, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.

Beckett Ridge is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States.

In 1880 he was created Baron Shute, of Beckett in the County of Berkshire, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

The present house was built in 1834-39, to designs by its owner the Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, an amateur architect, the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who was inspired by buildings he had seen on trips to Paris and based his house on designs published in French architectural books such as Jacques-François Blondel's Architecture Française ( 1752 ); the works were superintended as clerk of works on site by James Clephan, who had been clerk of the works at the Liddell seat, Ravensworth Castle, County Durham, and had recently performed as professional amanuensis and builder for Lord Barrington, whose house, Beckett Park, Berkshire, was designed by his brother-in-law, Tom Liddell, an amateur architect.

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, New York: Grove Press.

Showcase performances in New York gave rise to a recording contract with ABC Dunhill Records and the release of the eponymous debut album in 1973, which had been recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with producers Roger Hawkins and Barry Beckett at the helm.

Margaret Beckett had to adapt quickly to her diplomatic role and within a few hours of her appointment as Foreign Secretary she flew to the United Nations in New York for an urgent meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the Iran nuclear weapons crisis.

IV by Samuel Beckett, edited by Paul Auster ( New York: Grove Press, 2006 ) ISBN 0-8021-1820-8

On August 7, 2009, Beckett was a part of a memorable game against the New York Yankees.

In the 2005 – 06 offseason, the rivalry between Boston and New York revived the Yankees loss to the Marlins in the 2003 World Series when they traded Josh Beckett, the pitcher who pitched a complete game shutout against the Yankees in the deciding game of the World Series to the Red Sox.

In 2009, from June 17 to July 26, she portrayed the role of Elly in a production of Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse at the historic Beckett Theater in New York.

Charles Isherwood, theatre critic for The New York Times, called Eno " a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation ".

* Kate Beckett, a New York Police Department detective on the television series Castle

She was a favorite of playwright Samuel Beckett, and toured Los Angeles, New York City, London, and Edinburgh in one of his last works, The Beckett Plays.

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.

Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.

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 ".

The series was created by Donald Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist from six years in the future ( during the series ' original run ) who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to " put right what once went wrong ".

After the 2001 general election, Beckett became Secretary of State at the new Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, created after the old Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was abolished in the wake of perceived mismanagement of the foot and mouth disease epidemic in 2001.

It was created in 1886 for the lawyer and architect Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet, with remainder to the heirs male of his father.

* Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet ( 1816 – 1905 ) ( created Baron Grimthorpe in 1886 )

Lord Grimthorpe's younger brother, Gervase Beckett, also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament and was created a baronet in 1921 ( see Beckett baronets ).

He learned about both from a clone of Carson Beckett he created.

In 1857, on the resignation of the chief justice, Sir William à Beckett, he succeeded to the vacant post, and was created a knight-bachelor.

The economic, political and social crises of contemporary France ˜— exclusion, immigration, unemployment, racism, etc .— and ( for some ) the notion that France has lost its sense of identity and international prestige — through the rise of American hegemony, the growth of Europe and of global capitalism ()— have created what some critics ( like Nancy Huston ) have seen as a new form of detached nihilism, reminiscent of the 50s and 60s ( Beckett, Cioran ).