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In referring to the Yeomen of the Guard, he stated, "A very large ration of beef is given to them daily at the court, and they might be called Beef-eaters". [6] The Beefeater name was carried over to the Yeomen Warders, due to the two corps' outward similarities and the Yeoman Warders' more public presence.
The Yeomen of the Guard, the original "Beefeaters", are often confused with the Yeomen Warders of His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, who are also known as "Beefeaters", a similar but distinct body. The Yeoman Warders wear their daily "undress" dark blue uniform and only on ceremonial occasions wear the Yeomen of the ...
Moira Cameron (born 1964) is a retired Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London, United Kingdom.She is the first woman to ever hold the position. In 2007, after a 22-year career in the British Army, Cameron became one of the 35 resident Warders in the Tower of London, commonly known as the Beefeaters.
The West Country Men were a group of influential individuals in Elizabethan England who advocated the English colonisation of Munster, attacks on the Spanish Empire, and the expansion of the English Empire. The group included Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Richard Grenville, and Sir Ralph Lane ...
Beefeaters generally live in the Tower along with their families, which led to the existence of a dedicated pub. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The current name of the pub, "The Keys", refers to a nightly locking-up ritual in the Tower ; the name is a recent change, and the establishment was historically known as the Yeoman Warders Club.
Beefeater is a term often used to refer to the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London, but originally referring to the Yeomen of the Guard. Beefeater may also refer to: Beefeater Gin, a British brand of spirits; Beefeater (restaurant), a chain of pub restaurants in the UK, owned by Whitbread Group PLC; The Beefeaters, a Danish beat group (1964 ...
Western novels (dime novels, pulp fiction), mainstream literature (Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales), newspapers, and plays portrayed the West as both a barren landscape full of savages and a romanticized idealistic way of living for rugged men. Being a frontiersman in the so-called Wild West, a cowboy, rancher, or gold miner were idealized ...
The Beefeater is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. He appeared in his civilian identity as Michael Morice in Justice League International Annual #3 (1989), and debuted as Beefeater in Justice League Europe #20 (November 1990) in a story by Keith Giffen , Gerard Jones and Marshall Rogers .