Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers

The only surviving son of Peter Beckford of Steepleton Iwerne and Louisa Pitt, he married Frances Rigby on 9 February 1808, in the house of her father, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hale Rigby in Upper Grosvenor Street, London.

[1] They had four children: He succeeded his father in his estates in 1811, including his Jamaican slave plantations.

His mania for high play was so pronounced that when his maternal uncle, George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers died on 20 July 1828, he left Beckford (who succeeded him in the title by special remainder) only £4,000 per year directly, leaving the bulk of his estate, worth £40,000 per year, in the hands of trustees for Horace's eldest son George.

[1] His godson and relative, Sir Horace Rumbold, recounted that he had left a bond with a close friend pledging neither to play cards or dice again,[a] and upheld this for some years.

His widow died on 6 September 1860 at Rushmore Lodge, in Cranborne Chase, Dorset.