He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day.
According to his memorial at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Dinton, it was "a work universally adopted by the naval service".
Richard Beke (1630–1707), of Westminster and Ford, Dinton, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.
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