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DNB

 * Article title: À Beckett, William
 * Author: Cooper, Thompson
 * LEAD: À BECKETT, Sir WILLIAM (1806–1869), chief justice of Victoria, was the eldest son of William à Beckett, and brother of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett [q. v.]
 * LEAD: À BECKETT, Sir WILLIAM (1806–1869), chief justice of Victoria, was the eldest son of William à Beckett, and brother of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett [q. v.]
 * LEAD: À BECKETT, Sir WILLIAM (1806–1869), chief justice of Victoria, was the eldest son of William à Beckett, and brother of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett [q. v.]

General

 * Men of the Time (1868)
 * Dod's Peerage (1869), 83
 * Heaton's Australian Dict. of Dates, 1
 * Times, 1 July 1869, p. 10, col. 5
 * Catalogue of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.

Works

 * The Siege of Dumbarton Castle and other Poems, 1824.
 * A large number of the biographies in the Georgian Era, 4 vols., 1832–4.
 * A Universal Biography; including scriptural, classical, and mythological memoirs, together with accounts of many eminent living characters. The whole newly compiled and composed from the most recent and authentic sources, 3 vols., London [1835?], 8vo, "a compilation of little value" according to DNB
 * The Magistrates' Manual for the Colony of Victoria, Melbourne, 1852.
 * Out of Harness, London, 1854, containing notes on a tour through Switzerland and Italy.
 * The Earl's Choice and other Poems, London, 1863.
 * Legal judgments printed in collections of Reports.