Beeching

Beeching is an English surname. It is either a derivative of the old English bece, bæce "stream", hence "dweller by the stream" or of the old English bece "beech-tree" hence "dweller by the beech tree".^[1]

People called Beeching include:-

• Henry Beeching (1859–1919) clergyman, author and poet
• Jack Beeching (John Charles Stuart Beeching) (1922–2001), British poet
• Richard Beeching (1913–1985), chairman of British Railways
• Thomas Beeching (1900–1971), English soldier and cricketer
• Vicky Beeching (Victoria Louise Beeching) (born 1979), British-born Christian singer

• Beeching Axe, informal name for the report "The Reshaping of British Railways"

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Beeching.
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