Notes for: Samuel Pickering Beales
From "Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections" by Frances Spalding (Random House 2010): (in 1885 George Darwin became the proud owner of the Newnham Grange, which) had always been known as "Mr Beales's House at Newnham", as it had been built by Samuel Pickering Beales in 1793, soon after the death of his brother Patrick Beales who had established himself as a corn and coal merchant on this site.
From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Beales, Edmond (1803-1881), radical, was born at Newnham, on 3 July 1803, the son of Samuel Pickering Beales, a merchant who acquired local celebrity as a political reformer, and his wife, Martha, daughter of John Curtis.
From Cambridge Chronicle and Journal 6 Oct 1815 (referring to a forthcoming ploughing match): The quantity of Land required to be ploughed will be one rood only, upon a Clover Field between Cambridge and Trumpington, in the occupation of Mr S. P. Beales.
Similarly from CCJ 6 Oct 1820: "The quantity of Land required to be ploughed will be one rood for each upon a piece of clover land belonging to S. P. Beales Esq on his College Farm at Trumpington to which there is access either from the Hills or Trumpington road".
Cambridge Chronicle 6 Oct 1820:
CAMBRIDGESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The next General Meeting of this Society will be held at the Eagle Inn, in Cambridge, on Friday the 13th day of October next.
The ploughing matches to commence precisely at 11 o’clock. The quantity of land to be ploughed will be one rood for each, upon a piece of clover land belonging to S.P. Beales, Esq. on his College Farm at Trumpington to which there is access either from the Hills or Trumpington road.
From the Huntingdon, Bedford and Peterborough Gazette, 7 Sep 1833: Flock of fine half-bred Downs, strong cart and nag horses, cows, swine, carts and other implements, Trumpington, between the first and second mile stone on the London Road,
to be sold by auction by Elliot Smith & son, on the premises of S. P. Beales Esq., leaving his farm, on Tuesday, 10th September, 1833, at 11 o'clock. (much stock described)