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ODON BEOTHY (1796-18J4)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 758 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEOTHY (1796-18J4)  , Hungarian See also:deputy and orator, was See also:born at Grosswardein, his See also:father being a retired officer and deputy See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of the See also:county of Bihar . At the See also:age of sixteen he served in the See also:war against See also:Napoleon, and was See also:present at the See also:great See also:battle of See also:Leipzig . Like so many others of his compatriots, he picked up Liberal ideas abroad . He was sent to See also:parliament by his county in 1826 and again in 183o, but did not become generally known till the session of 1832-1836, when along with See also:Deak he, as a liberal See also:Catholic, defended the See also:Protestant point of view in " the mixed marriages question." He was also an energetic See also:advocate of freedom of speech . After parliament See also:rose he carried his principles to their logical conclusion by marrying a Protestant See also:lady and, being denied a blessing on the occasion by an indignant See also:bishop, publicly declared that he could very well dispense with such blessings . In 1841 he was elected deputy lord-lieutenant of his county to counteract the See also:influence of the lord-lieutenant, Lajos See also:Tisza, and powerfully promoted the popular cause by his eloquence and agitation . After 1843 the conservatives succeeded in excluding him both from parliament and from his See also:official position in the county; but during the famous " See also:March Days " (1848) he regained all his authority, becoming at the same See also:time a See also:commander of See also:militia, a deputy and lord-lieutenant . At the first session of the Upper See also:House (5th of See also:July 1848), he moved that it should be radically reformed, and during the war of See also:Independence he energetically served the Hungarian See also:government as a See also:civil See also:commissioner and lord See also:justice . Towards the end of the war he reappeared as a deputy at the See also:Szeged See also:diet, and on the See also:flight of the government took See also:refuge first with See also:Richard See also:Cobden in See also:London and subsequently in See also:Jersey, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Victor See also:Hugo . Thence he went to See also:Hamburg, to meet his wife, and died there on the 7th of See also:December 1854 . See also:Beothy was a See also:man of extraordinary ability and See also:character, and an excellent debater . He also exercised as much influence socially over his contemporaries as politically, owing to his unfailing tact and pleasant wit .

See Antal Cscngery, Hungarian Orators and Statesmen (Hung., See also:

Budapest, 1851) . (R . N .

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