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Show Famous Old English "Beau" The sobriquet "Beau Nash" was bestowed be-stowed upon Itlchard Nash, a fashionable fashion-able personage of the Klghteeuth century. cen-tury. He was born In Wales In 1674. 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, lu gratitude for his services, serv-ices, plsced s statue between those of Newton mid Tope. He lived to be eighty-seven, but Ids last years were spent in poverty, owing to tbe act of parliament that suppressed gambling. Kaitis City Star. |