William Beaumont Busby[1] (1757 – 31 August 1820) was Dean of Rochester[2] from 1808[3] to 1820.
He was born in 1757 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford.
[4] Appointed 43rd Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons by Speaker Henry Addington in 1796,[5] he was Rector of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, and then Canon of the First Stall, St George's Chapel, Windsor, from 1803 to 1808 before his elevation to the Deanery.
[6] He died on 31 August 1820.
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