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The Hon. Bryan Rupert Beckett was born in London on 23 August 1922, the youngest son of the Rt. Hon. Ralph Beckett, 3rd Baron Grimthorpe, and his first wife, Lady Mary Alice Beckett (née Archdale). He was educated at Eton College until 1940 and came up to Worcester College, Oxford on 11 October 1940. He left Oxford in 1941 for officer training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst, without taking a degree. Officer Cadet Bryan Beckett was killed in a car accident on 11 March 1943, aged 20.
Bryan Beckett is buried at St Helen’s Church, Amotherby, Yorkshire. He is commemorated on the war memorial in the Royal Gallery at the Houses of Parliament, and on the memorials at Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford.