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Cecil Beaton
British photographer and designer (1904–1980)
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy BeatonCBE (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and screen.
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His accolades includes three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards.
Early life and education
Beaton was born on 14 January 1904 in Hampstead, north London,[1] the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867–1936), a prosperous timber merchant, and his wife, Esther "Etty" Sisson (1872–1962).
His grandfather, Walter Hardy Beaton (1841–1904), had founded the family business of "Beaton Brothers Timber Merchants and Agents", and his father followed into the business. Ernest Beaton was an amateur actor and met his wife, Cecil's mother Esther ("Etty") when playing the lead in a play.
She was the daughter of a Cumbrian blacksmith named Joseph Sisson and had come to London to visit her marrie