William Beckford in Podcasts
personA British politician and owner of a Jamaican plantation, involved in the slave economy.
Mentions Over Time
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The Rest Is History
609. Nelson: The Gathering Storm (Part 2)
And then he goes off to a place where I once took five wickets, Fonthill, where William Beckford, who is going to be exposed as the Jeffrey Epstein of the Regency period, this very, very sinister figure who will end up going into exile in Portugal.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: X-Mas Special: The Heroes Who Ended The Slave Trade
William Beckford, two-time mayor of London, owned a 22,000-acre plantation in Jamaica.