Lord Grimthorpe Ernest William ("Baron Grimthorpe") Beckett (formerly Beckett-Denison) (25 November 1856–9 May 1917)

2nd Baron Grimthorpe, British banker and Conservative Member of Parliament for Whitby who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the Grimthorpe peerage. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College Cambridge but did not complete his degree, leaving to travel abroad. He was made a partner in his father's banking firm Beckett & Co, in Leeds but was sacked by his two brothers because of his personal debts; he squandered much of his inherited wealth. Lord Grimthorpe was a convert to the anti-vaccination cause.