Edward Beck (academic)
Edward Anthony Beck (21 March 1848 - 12 April 1916)[1] was a British academic in the last third of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.[2] Beck was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was to spend the rest of his career.[3] He was Scholar in 1867; Chancellor's English Medallist, 1868 and 1870; Fellow from 1871 to 1902; Seatonian Prizeman in 1874; Assistant Tutor in 1875; Junior Tutor in 1885; Senior Tutor in 1887; and Senior proctor from 1881 to 1888, when he became Vice Master.[5] On 30 December 1874, Beck married Emily Mary Clark with whom he later had five children.This article relating to the University of Cambridge is a stub.