Represented Mandeville in the Provincial Council (1862-1867, 1870-1874); member of the Stewart executive (1866-1867); and of the Kennaway executive (1871-1874), as provincial treasurer. Also represented Kaiapoi in Parliament 1866-1867, though he unsucessfully campaigned for the Kaiapoi seat in the general election of 1875. In business as a grain merchant at Ashburton for some years; appointed magistrate at Lyttelton; and in 1882 was transferred to Timaru, where he spent the rest of his life. Son of Samuel and Annie Beswick, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. See DNZB / Scholefield (Vol 1, p66).
Beswick, Joseph Sutton, 1831-1888
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Correspondence
Date: Apr-May 1868
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-044
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letter from G F [?] Muskew, Avonside, Christchurch, re employment Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Mar 1868
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-043
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes notes relating to appointments; letter from [?] McKenna, Christchurch, looking for work and had served in the 65th Regiment; anonymous letter from Hokitika re West Coast affairs; and letter from I or J LeCren, Timaru Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence
Date: May-Sep 1881
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-100
Description: Language - Letter in Maori with translation Quantity: 1 folder(s). Plan of allotments on Ferry Road, Christchurch; sale 21 May 1881 by H Matson & Co
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Jun 1883
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-106
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1862
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-025
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letters from [?] F B Harston, Christchurch; John [?] Marreson of London sent from Marseilles; [?] I Tucker Ford, Tresillian Station, Waimakariri; Albert [?] Ottyeall, London; [?] Robert Johnson, Lyttelton; and S [?] Squier, Horndon. Group of copied correspondence from and to William Dryden from Lees Bell, J S Neall and John Rodham. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: 1864
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-029
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes letters from John [?] Blyth(e), Stanford le Hope; [?] Cotterill, Wakefield Trust Proeprties, Christchurch Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: May-Aug 1876
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-080
Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below; also includes outward letters by Hall including one to Hill of the Bank of New South Wales; refund from Canterbury Railways; letter from Squier from Sleepy Hollow; from [?] J [?] Wharrie Morley, Wellington; Mrs Thorp, Hull, re Dryden, a solicitor with statement about treatment he was receiving; and from Andrew D Murray or Dunning, re Union Bank transaction Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Nov-Dec 1868
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-048
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes telegrams, ciruclar relating to the late Duke of Montrose and the post office, a petition to call a public meeting in Prebbleton, a note re Robert Hall's burial plot in the Church of England cemetery, recipe for Russell's mixture and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Jun 1858
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-019
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes draft outward letters from Hall; and letter from M [?] Bamberson, Wellington Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Apr 1867
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-036
Description: Most correspondents identified and entered under Name; includes letter from [?] Stevens writing from the Christchurch Club, memos etc Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Manuscript
Correspondence
Date: Jan-Jun 1866
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-033
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; includes letter from Captain Steward, Hobart Town, and person writing from Raincliff Station Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Kaiapoi General Assembly election. Grand Jubilee concert!! For one day only! Positively...
Date: 1875
By: Christchurch Press Company Ltd
Reference: Eph-E-POLITICS-1875-01
Description: Text purports to give the programme for a concert starring Bowen and Beswick. However, it is a satirical political poster commenting on two of the contestants for the Kaiapoi seat in the 1875 general election, Charles Bowen and Joseph Beswick. The election coincided with the 25th jubilee of the Canterbury Province. Bowen won, but not by as large a margin as the poster predicted. "Songs" featured in the concert include "Charlie is my darling", "How many legs has a sheep", "Not for Joseph", "Kaiapoi was glad when they departed". Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Letterpress print, 885 x 190 mm.