- À'BECKET, GILBERT
- an English humourist, who contributed to Punch and other organs; wrote the "Comic Blackstone" and comic histories of England and Rome (1811-1856).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
À'BECKET, GILBERT
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