Beriah Botfield FRS FRSE FSA FRGS (5 March 1807 – 7 August 1863) was a British Member of Parliament representing Ludlow in Shropshire as a Conservative.
In 1858, he had erected a stone cross near the Wales–England border on Shadwell Hill, to commemorate a pedlar named William Cantlin who was robbed and murdered there in 1691.
[6] He served as a Cornet in the South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1845,[7] and was treasurer of the Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury in 1859.
[8] Beriah Botfield died on 7 August 1863, at his home at Grosvenor Square, London, at the age of fifty-six.
[6] In his will he left a considerable bequest to the Institution of Civil Engineers,[3] and his collections of early printed and colour plate books and paintings, mainly Dutch landscapes to the Marquess of Bath, with whose family he claimed tenuous links.
temmata Botevilliana (1843) was printed for a private collection, then much enlarged and presented to the general public in 1858, as an account of the family of Boteville or Botfield.