[Bethnal Green] (129), an eastern suburb of London, a parliamentary borough, a poor district, and scene of benevolent enterprises.
[Betterton, Thomas], born at Westminster, a tragic actor, and as such an interpreter of Shakespeare on, it is believed, the traditional lines.
[Bettina], the Countess of Arnim, a passionate admirer of Goethe.
[Betty, W. Henry], a boy actor, known as the Infant Roscius; amassed a fortune; lived afterwards retired (1791-1874).
[Beule], a French statesman and archæologist; superintended excavations on the Acropolis of Athens; held office under Macmahon (1826-1874).
[Beust, Count von], a German statesman, born at Dresden; Minister for Foreign Affairs in Saxony; of strong conservative leanings, friendly to Austria; became Chancellor of the Austro-Hungarian empire; adopted a liberal policy; sympathised with France in the Franco-German war; resigned office in 1871; left "Memoirs" (1809-1886).
[Beuthen] (36), a manufacturing town in Prussian Silesia, in the centre of a mining district.
[Beverley] (12), a Yorkshire manufacturing town, 8 m. NW. of Hull, with a Gothic minster, which contains the tombs of the Percys.
[Beverley, John], a learned man, tutor to the Venerable Bede, archbishop of York, and founder of a college for secular priests at Beverley; was one of the most learned men of his time; d. 721.
[Bevis of Southampto], or Hampton, Sir, a famous knight of English mediæval romance, a man of gigantic stature, whose marvellous feats are recorded in Drayton's "Polyolbion."