Beckett, Francis, Born 1945
Dates
- Existence: Born 12 May 1945
Biography
Francis Beckett is an English author, journalist, biographer, and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. He has also written on education for the New Statesman, The Guardian and The Independent and is the editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age. Francis Beckett is the son of the politician Johnn Beckett, and his wife, Anne Cutmore.
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Found in 1 Collection or Record:
John Beckett Collection
Documents, correspondence, books, and journals belonging to the politician John Beckett. Also includes files of research material assembled by his son, the journalist Francis Beckett, during the writing of a biography of his father 'The Rebel Who Lost His Cause' (1999).
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below