Talk:William Beckford (novelist)

Untitled
The link to John Farquhar has no relation to Beckford. Should the brackets - i.e. - the live link - be removed? teneriff 02:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Terminology
The term "profligate" is usually applied to sexual behavior, not to collection of paintings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maclennan123 (talk • contribs) 18:27, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No it isn't. PiCo (talk) 05:29, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed no. Johnbod (talk) 12:59, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

sold before the sale?

 * Fonthill, with part of his collection was sold before the sale for £330,000 to John Farquhar, who had made a fortune selling gunpowder in India.

I guess "before the sale" is a remnant of a former conception of the sentence? I'll look up the history later. —Tamfang (talk) 02:52, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

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Slave-ownership
I can see that this is going to be a long debate on wiki.

British-owned plantations in Jamaica were all ‘slave-worked’, so the mention is redundant. You might as well add that it was malaria and typhoid ridden. Equally, to define Beckford in the lede as a ‘slave-owner’ is like classifying one of today’s better-off businessmen as a ‘yacht-owner’. It is simply not notable enough.

To retain credibility, I think the diversity/equality lobby should confine their mentions of slave-owning to those cases where it was an issue of special importance and interest in the career of that particular individual. Valetude (talk) 16:16, 14 February 2021 (UTC)