Edward Beck (academic)

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Edward Anthony Beck (21 March 1848 – 12 April 1916)[1] was a British academic in the last third of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.[2]

Beck was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was to spend the rest of his career.[3] He was Scholar in 1867; Chancellor's English Medallist, 1868 and 1870; Fellow from 1871 to 1902; Seatonian Prizeman in 1874; Assistant Tutor in 1875; Junior Tutor in 1885; Senior Tutor in 1887; and Senior proctor from 1881 to 1888, when he became Vice Master. He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from his election in November 1902 until his death;[4] and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1904 until 1906.[5]

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Academic offices
Preceded by Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1902—1916
Succeeded by
Henry Bond
Preceded by Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
1904—1906
Succeeded by
Ernest Stewart Roberts


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