George Beeston

Sir George Beeston or Beston (circa 1520 - 13 September 1601) was an English landowner, courtier, soldier and sailor. He was the captain of the Dreadnought in 1588, Member of Parliament for Cheshire in 1589 and Ranger of Delamere Forest. Early life George Beeston was the son of John Beeston (died 1542) and Katherine Calverley, a daughter of Sir George Calverley of the Lea, Cheshire. According to George Ormerod in his History of Cheshire (1819), his memorial in Bunbury Church states his age as 102 but he was legally declared on an inquisition post mortem to be only 22 years old when he succeeded to his father's estates in 1542, indicating a likely birth year of 1520 (i.e. 80/81 years old in 1601). Soldier and sailor He was recorded as one of the captains ordered 'to keep the Narrow Seas' in 1562, and in charge of the land defences at Gravesend, Kent, in about 1576.