Frank Beaman
Sir Frank Clement Offley Beaman (1858 – 1928), styled Mr Justice Beaman, was a puisne judge in the High Court, Bombay.
Quotes
- As the fairest, daintiest natural thing will not brook rough handling or too close and continued examination, the iridescence of the butterfly’s wing, the velvet of the rose petal, so the rare and exquisite essence of womanliness will not bear the heat, the mud, the profanation of the public arena.
- Paper read to a ladies' circle in 1908, later printed; quoted in Kenneth Hudson, Men and Women: Feminism and Anti-Feminism Today (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1968) ch. 1 (p. 19)