Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe

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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, was a 19th-century English lawyer, mechanician, and architect best known for designing the mechanism of the Big Ben clock and for his controversial restorations of English churches, including St Albans Cathedral.

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instanceOf English lawyer
architect
horologist
human
mechanician
peer of the United Kingdom
alsoKnownAs Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet NERFINISHED
centuryOfActivity 19th century
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
designed Big Ben clock mechanism
clock mechanism of the Palace of Westminster clock tower
familyName Beckett NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork clockmaking
ecclesiastical architecture
law
genre Gothic Revival architecture
givenName Edmund NERFINISHED
hasInfluenceOn British clockmaking
Victorian church restoration practices
hasWorkAspect advocated robust and sometimes drastic restoration of medieval buildings
his restorations were considered controversial by some contemporaries
honorificTitle 1st Baron Grimthorpe NERFINISHED
knownFor controversial church restorations
designing the mechanism of the Big Ben clock
restoration of St Albans Cathedral
languageSpoken English
nobleTitle Baron Grimthorpe NERFINISHED
Baronet
notableWork design of the clock mechanism of the Palace of Westminster clock tower (Big Ben)
restoration of St Albans Cathedral
restoration of various English churches
occupation architect
horologist
lawyer
mechanician
peer
placeOfActivity England
London, England
surface form: London

St Albans NERFINISHED
positionHeld Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Queen's Counsel
religion Christianity
restored St Albans Cathedral NERFINISHED
multiple English parish churches

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Edmund Beckett Denison alsoKnownAs Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
Edmund Beckett Denison titleGranted Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
this entity surface form: 1st Baron Grimthorpe