James Montgomery Beck, III

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James Montgomery Beck III, 77, of Princeton, died August 13 at home of cardiovascular disease. A longtime Princeton resident, he was a graduate of the Hun School and Princeton University.

Born in London to an American father and British mother, he came to the United States at the age of 10 in 1939, but returned to the United Kingdom after graduation from Princeton. He also lived at times in Newport, Rhode Island; Hollywood, California; Savannah, Georgia; New York City, Mexico, and Switzerland.

He had a varied career. He owned a restaurant in London. He also worked for an advertising agency in New York City, for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Georgia, and as a college librarian in Newport before retiring to Princeton to devote himself to historical research on his family. His American grandfather, James M. Beck, was a Congressman from Pennsylvania, Assistant Attorney General, and Solicitor General of the United States, and the author of a number of books on the U.S. Constitution. His British grandfather, Edward Priaulx Tennant, Lord Glenconner, was a Scottish Liberal Member of Parliament and financier who served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire. His British grandmother, the Edwardian author Pamela Wyndham Tennant, was a member of "The Souls," an influential late 19th Century group of English art patrons, intellectuals, and politicians. His great uncle was British Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, and his step-grandfather, Lord Grey, was British Foreign Secretary during World War I.

Mr. Beck was a former board member of the Princeton branch of the English Speaking Union, and a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, the Nassau Club, the Princeton Club of New York, and the Spouting Rock Beach Association of Newport, R.I.

He was predeceased by two half-sisters, Nina Marais and Diana Blow, and two half-brothers, Harold, 4th Baron Tennyson, and Mark, 5th Baron Tennyson. He is survived by his twin sister, Virginia Clare Beck of Philadelphia; an adopted son, David Lawson-Beck of Princeton; a half-brother, E.R.C Beck of Newport; three grandchildren; and a great-grandson.