R. M. Beverley

Robert Mackenzie Beverly (1798-1868) was an author, magistrate, and debater. He was born in Beverly, Yorkshire, attended Richmond School, and enrolled at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1816. Received a bachelor of law degree. in 1821, after which he lived in Beverly, eventually becoming a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant. Beverly was born into a Quaker family, but in 1836-1837. In a dispute with the Beaconites, he was one of those who followed Isaac Krudson, retired from the Society of Friends. He was among those who then joined the Plymouth brothers. Because the Quakers did not practice baptism, he was baptized by the Brothers at Oxford in October 1838, when Henry Bellenden Bultil served. Beverly wrote books, satires and poems mainly on religious topics, but also on political topics, both church and temporary, and with at least one foray into biology, in which he attacked the then new Darwinian theory. He also wrote some epic poems that did not receive lasting recognition. He is mentioned in several other writings of the time, mainly in response to his attacks, for example in the Anacalipsis by Godfrey Higgins.