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Dr John Besford is a retired Harley Street dentist, famous for his specialism in prosthodontics.

Joan Matthews was born in Haltwhistle, Northumberland. She married David Besford four years after the start of the Second World War.

David Besford was injured fighting in the First World War. He and his family emigrated from the UK to Australia in 1925, where he worked as a mines inspector.

Sonja Besford (Sonja Batinić-Besford) is a Serbian writer born in Belgrade.

Samuel Besford rose from valet and butler in grand households to hotelier, keeping the Three Cups at Colchester and the George at Scarborough with his wife Mary Ann, who was killed in the George Hotel fire of 1902.

Emily Maud Carter was born in Highgate, London, and married George Besford in 1920 at Gateshead Registry Office. They had one child, Henry, in 1921.

Brothers George and Thomas Besford were charged with Highway Robbery and tried at the Old Bailey in London on 7th September 1768.