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Surname	Beckham	Alternative Surname
First Name	Humphrey	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished
Year of Death	-1671
Biographical Details	Beckham was chamberlain of the Joiners’ Guild in 1621 and warden in 1635. He carved his own monument in St Thomas, Salisbury, which is of wood and has a ‘primitively carved’ relief of the Resurrection (1). It is inscribed ‘Here under lyeth the Body of Humphry Beckham who died 2nd day of February Anno 1671 Aged 83 yrs. His own Worke’. References: inf. Claude Blair