 He was elected a fellow of his college soon after taking his first degree, and was senior fellow at the time of his death (24 July 1874).He compiled the "Index Græcitatis Æschyleæ", which was published at Cambridge in 1830 in the first volume of the "Index in Tragicos Græcos".An edition of Robert Ainsworth's "Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ", revised by Beatson, was issued in 1829, and republished in 1830 and in 1860.