History of the Bean Family page 29.
[ Children of Willoughby and Elizabeth Bean - Alexander Louis Wellington contd. ]

at Amboise in France. Educated at Pembroke Coll. Oxford. Ordained 1841. For many years Vicar of Sowerby, Yorishire, where he was greatly loved. Died 30 Mar 1895. He married, first, Marian Stillingfleet, and had two sons Alexander Henry Stillingfleet, and Clement Willoughby: and 3 daughters who died young. His second wife was Ellen Rawson. Both his sons are married. Alexander married twice and by his first wife, Emma Grindon, had two daughters Minnie and Dorothy. Minnie married Carl Drielsma and Dorothy, Mr Fowler.
By his second wife Lucy Cooper he has 3 sons: Cutherbert unmarried: Bernad and Haffey - all serving in the Great War - Cutherbet and Haffey in the Flying Corps and Bernard in the South African Rifles. Alexander has 5 daughters: Madge, married Capt. Louis Alfred Brooke Smith and has 6 sons: Hilda & Evelyn - twins: Andrea: and Kathleen. Clement Bean is married and has one son John Willoughby Stillingfleet and a daughter Joan Clemence.

Willoughby Bean, the father of Alexander Louis Wellington Bean, served in his first campaign with Arthur Wellesley, under the Duke of York. Both were junior lieutenants. The campaign was disasterous: 1794. On one occassion the French were coming upon them in vast numbers and the Duke of York was "under the table, drunk".