People

A Harley Street prosthodontist, Dr John Besford wrote Good Mouthkeeping and co-designed a denture system that won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2004.

Jack Besford was a dentist and amateur swimmer, who became British and European swimming champion.

A self-styled strongman, Samson’s hobby was collecting and lifting mangles.

David Besford was a Lowestoft trawler skipper who in 1985 brought in the biggest landing ever made by a beam trawler at the port.

Skipper of the Lowestoft trawler Suffolk Kinsman, Peter Besford went overboard in the nets during a rescue in 1961 and swam back to the ship.

Debby Besford’s photographs of Norfolk youth culture in the 1980s and 90s are held by the Museum of Youth Culture. She teaches photography in Norfolk and Cambridge.

Sonja Besford has published five books in Serbian and two collections of poetry in English, and is president of the Association of Serbian Writers & Artists Abroad.

Swimming correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Pat Besford wrote the first Encyclopaedia of Swimming in 1971.

Steve Besford is an actor, playwright and screenwriter based in Leeds, writing period drama for the screen.

William James Besford, a Lowestoft trawler skipper who helped clear mines off the Belgian coast in the First World War, was lost with the Bucentaur and all her crew in 1947.