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Beardsell, Sir William

b ? - died 1940

Property Owner:

'In England the last traditional style mill was erected in 1929 at St Margaret's Bay, overlooking the Straits of Dover in Kent. Sir William Beardsell intended that the windmill should generate D.C. electricty for the house to which it was attached. The house was requisitioned at the beginning of the Second World War.  - Power from Wind: a history of windmill technology, Richard Leslie Hills.

Company Owner:

Messrs. W.A. Beardsell & Co., Ltd., is a company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act, 1913, and has its registered office at Madras. Sir William Beardsell owned or controlled practically all the shares in the latter company.  - Income Tax Case, Madras 1948 (refers to his death around 1940).

Philanthropist

All the objects described in the present article, with the exception of one (Fig. 7) given by Sir William Beardsell. were purchased through Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy in India. from the Marianne Brimmer Fund.  - Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Boston, April 1922.

The St. Margaret's Hostel for working women, a graceful 1921 structure, typical of British colonial verandahed construction, was built through the generosity of Sir William Beardsell who founded Beardsell & Co, later Mettur Beardsell Ltd., in 1887. Till he died it 1940, he made it a point to dine in the Hostel, which he continued to contribute to, every time he visited Madras. - The Hindu online, April 30, 2003

photogram text

Although not landscapes, " The Fountain " (Plate LIX), by E. Hoch, and "The Sunbeam" (Plate XXXVIII), by Sir Wm. Beardsell, claim a place among pictures of natural effect, on account of their searching study of light phenomena. Photograms of the Year 1919.