{{Short description|English antiquarian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Beale Poste''' (1793– April 15, 1871) was an English antiquary and Anglican cleric.<ref name=dnb/>
Beale was the second son of William Poste, a scion of an old Kentish family with his seat near Maidstone. The father was one of London's four common pleaders and sent Beale to Trinity Hall at Cambridge. The son dropped out and travelled in Europe. Upon his return, he was ordained, married Mary Jane Cousins in 1817, and returned to school to graduate LLB in 1819. He was curate at High Halden and then Milstead.<ref name=dnb>Hawke, Edward George. "Beale Poste" in the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', Vol. XLVI, p. 203. Hosted at Wikisource.</ref>
At Milstead, he devoted himself to archaeology and was one of the earliest members of the British Archaeological Association, writing for their journal. He moved to Bydews Place near Maidstone around 1851 and remained there until his death. His wife predeceased him by two years. The couple had three sons and four daughters. The third son, Edward, became director of Britain's civil service examinations.<ref name=dnb/>
B.B. Woodward credited him with the anonymous translation<ref>{{Citation |editor-last=Cave |editor-first=Edward |editor-link=Edward Cave |contribution= Mr. Wex's dissertation on Richard of Cirencester |contribution-url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?u=1&num=365&seq=387&view=image&size=100&id=mdp.39015030569076 |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?num=337&u=1&seq=241&view=image&size=100&id=mdp.39015030569076 |volume=XXVI | location=London |publisher= J.B. Nichols & Son<!--sic--> |date=October 1846|pages=365–369}}.</ref> of Karl Wex's article on Charles Bertram's ''Description of Britain''<ref>{{Citation |last=Wex |first=Friedrich Karl |contribution=Ueber<!--sic--> Ricardus Corinensis [On Richardus Coriensis] |contribution-url=http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/rhm&CISOPTR=4032 |title=Rheinisches Museum für Philologie |trans-title=Rhenish Museum of Philology |volume=4 |date=1846 |pages=346–353}}. {{in lang|de}}</ref> which appeared in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'' in October 1846.<ref>{{Citation |last=Woodward|first=Bernard Bolingbroke|author-link=Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward|editor-last=Cave |editor-first=Edward |editor-link=Edward Cave |contribution=A Literary Forgery: Richard of Cirencester's Tractate on Britain (continued) |contribution-url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027525982;view=1up;seq=476 |title=The Gentleman's Magazine |volume= II (New Series) | location=London |publisher= Bradbury, Evans, & Co. |date=October 1866 |page=458}}.</ref>
==Bibliography== His works include:<ref name=dnb/> *''History of the College of All Saints'' (Maidstone: 1847) *''The Coins of Cunobeline and of the Ancient Britains'' (1853) *''Britannic Researches'' (1853) *''Britannia Antiqua'' (1857) *''Celtic Inscriptions on Gaulish and British Coins'' (1861)
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