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Show Famous Old English "Beau" The sobriquet "Beau Nash" was bestowed be-stowed upon Kichard Nash, a fashion-uble fashion-uble personage of the Eighteenth century. cen-tury. Ha was born in Wales In 1G4, and studied law, but later became a gambler, for which he seemed to have a greater liking and aptitude and from which he derived an ample revenue. In 1704 he transformed Bath from a vulgar and neglected watering place Into a gay and fashionable resort. The city of Bath. In gratitude for his services, serv-ices, placed statue between those of Newton and Pope. He lived to be eighty-seven, but his last years were spent In poverty, owing to the act of parliament that suppressed gambling. KanKas City Star. |