Gilbert Abbott a Beckett was educated at Westminster school, and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1841.
His eldest son Gilbert Arthur A Beckett (1837-1891) was born at Hammersmith on the 7th of April 1837.
A younger SOH, ArthurWilliam A Beckett (1844-1909), a well-known journalist and man of letters, was also on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, and gave an account of his father and his own reminiscences in The A Becketts of Punch (1903).
He was a younger son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and brother of Gilbert Arthur à Beckett.
Beckett was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, and gave an account of his father and his own reminiscences in The A Becketts of Punch (1903).
Gilbert, Beckett briefly feuded with Gilbert in 1869, but the two patched up the friendship, and Gilbert even later collaborated on projects with Beckett's brother.
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