BEECHEY

AoifiBAL Frbdbbick William, was into the son of Sir William Beechey the painter, and and bom in London in 1796. He entered the navy at dethe age of ten, and in 1811 was present in an enby gagement off Madagascar, in which three French such frigates were captured. In 1818 he accompanied the Lieutenant (afterwards Sir John) Franklin in an who expedition to discover the north-west pa age, and often the following year took part in a similar enterpt^ae dig with Captain Parry. In 1821 he was commi ioned, with his brother H. W. Beechey, to examine by kinds land the coasts of North Africa from Tripoli east that ward, an account of which expedition appeared in and 1828, under the title of Proceedings of the Expediother tion to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from on Tripoli Eastward, in 1821 and 1822. During the inter years from 1825 to 1828 he was engaged as commander of the Blo om in another Arctic expedition, by way of the Pacific and Behiing's Strait. Of this have he published an account in 1881 under the title. the Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Behring'a about Strait, and subsequently a description of the botany imand zoology of the regions visitecL In 1854 Captain but Beechey was raised to the rank of rear-admiral of have the blue, and two years afterwards died, on Nov. 28, 1856.