Researching Richard Bellamy
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The name Richard means "strong ruler" and is of German origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Richard Bellamy and the Bellamy Family History
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Richard Bellamy (politician)
Richard Bellamy (1825–1892) was a farmer, land surveyor and politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented York County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1886 to 1890 as a Liberal member.
He was born in London, England and educated there. Bellamy came to New Brunswick as a "Blue Coat Boy", a juvenile emigrant. Later, he was also involved in the lumber trade. His reelection in 1890 was appealed and he lost the subsequent by-election. In 1891, Bellmay was named to the province's Executive Council. He died in office the following year.
Source: Richard Bellamy (politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRichard Bellamy (singer)
Richard Bellamy (1743?–1813) was an English bass singer. One of the chief bass singers of his day, Bellamy was appointed a gentleman of the Chapel Royal 28 March 1771, and a lay vicar of Westminster Abbey 1 Jan. 1773.
Bellamy married Miss Elizabeth Ludford: their son, the singer Thomas Ludford Bellamy, inherited considerable property from his mother's father, Thomas Ludford (died 1776).
In 1777 Richard Bellamy became a vicar choral of St. Paul's Cathedral, and from 1793 to 1800 he was also almoner and master of the choristers. In 1784 he was one of the principal basses at the Handel commemoration in Westminster Abbey. He gave up all his appointments in 1801, and died on 11 September 1813. Bellamy published a few sonatas, a collection of glees, and a Te Deum with orchestral accompaniment.
Source: Richard Bellamy (singer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRichard Bellamy (art dealer)
Richard Hu Bellamy (December 3, 1927–March 29, 1998), was an American art dealer, known as Dick Bellamy.
Dick Bellamy was born in Cincinnati in 1927, the son of a doctor father, who met his future wife at medical school. He ran New York's Green Gallery, from 1960 until 1965 an art gallery at 15 West 57th Street in Manhattan. He then ran the Noah Goldowsky Gallery on upper Madison Avenue for a few years. Bellamy attended the University of Ohio in Cincinnati for one semester. In 1949 he visited Provincetown, Massachusetts and its summer art colony. He moved to New York in the early 1950s eventually working as director of the Hansa Gallery, a cooperative gallery that included members Allan Kaprow, Alfred Leslie, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz, Jean Follett, Robert Whitman and Jan Müller.
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