On This Day 13th September 1978 George Beck died
George Andrew (Augustus) Beck (1904–1978), Roman Catholic archbishop of Liverpool, was born on 28 May 1904 in Streatham, London, the second son of Fleet Street journalist Patrick Beck and his Irish wife, Louisa O'Keefe.
The family lived at 52 Gelncairn Road Streatham and George was educated at Clapham College and later at the Assumptionist College of St Michael at Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
(George Andrew Beck 1904–1978 by Elliott & Fry, 1955
© National Portrait Gallery, London x86323)
George Andrew (Augustus) Beck (1904–1978), Roman Catholic archbishop of Liverpool, was born on 28 May 1904 in Streatham, London, the second son of Fleet Street journalist Patrick Beck and his Irish wife, Louisa O'Keefe.
The family lived at 52 Gelncairn Road Streatham and George was educated at Clapham College and later at the Assumptionist College of St Michael at Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
(George Andrew Beck 1904–1978 by Elliott & Fry, 1955
© National Portrait Gallery, London x86323)
