He has written a biography of his own father, John Beckett, a Labour MP from 1925 to 1931 and whip of the Independent Labour Party group of MPs; later chief propagandist for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and co-founder (with William Joyce) of the National Socialist League, who was interned during the second world war for his fascist activities.
John S. Beckett (1927–2007), Irish musician, composer, and conductor
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Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet, PC, FRS (1775–1847), British lawyer and Tory politician
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