Charles Tilstone Beke (1800–74)

Traveller, geographer, and author. Travelled in Abyssinia, 1840–3 and 1866; Syria and Palestine, 1861–2; and to Mount Sinai and the Red Sea, 1874. Attempted to reconcile geological discoveries with Biblical events and locations. A business associate of Blyth Brothers, Mauritius, 1853–9. Resident of Bromley, Kent, in 1874.