When Thomas Beecroft was christened on 9 October 1771, in Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Beecroft, was 46 and his mother, Ann Hardcastle, was 43.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
The original Ouse Bridge collapsed in 1154 under the weight of a crowd that was on it. In 1367, after the bridge had been replaced with stone and became the site of the first public toilets. In 1564-1565 the bridge was finally done being repaired. In 1810 and 1818 the bridge was dismantled to make way for a new Ouse Bridge design and completed in 1821.
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from Beecroft Hall in Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire.
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