John Beddoe

John Beddoe BA, MD, FRS, FRCP
Born	1826
Died	1911
Residence	Royal Infirmary Edinburgh [1854] 4 Wetherell Place Clifton [1862] 4 Lansdowne Place, Clifton [A6:1; list Aug 20 1866] 2 Lansdown Pl, Clifton [1867][A6:2] Mortimer House, Clifton, Bristol [1883] The Manor House, Clifton, Bristol [1888] The Chantry, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts [1894]
Occupation	medical
Society Membership membership ESL, ASL, LAS, AI Ordinary Fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1911 deceased elected_ESL 1854.03.08 elected_AI 1854 elected_LAS 1873.03.11 elected_ASL 1863 clubs Athenaeum Club societies Anthropological Society of Paris Anthropological Society of Berlin Anthropological Society of Brussels Anthropological Society of Washington Royal Society Royal College of Physicians Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society

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Office Notes

ESL Council 1858-59 Member [retiring]
ESL Council 1864-65 Member [proposed]
ESL Council 1865-66 Member
ESL Council 1866-67 Member
ESL Council 1867-68 Member [retiring]

ASL Council 1867 Vice President
ASL Council 1868 Vice President
ASL Council 1869 President
ASL Council 1870 President
ASL Council 1871 Member

LAS Council 1873 Member
LAS Council 1874 Member
LAS Council 1875 Member

AI Council 1871 Member
AI Council 1873 Vice President
AI Council 1874 Member
AI Council 1875 Member
AI Council 1876 Member
AI Council 1877 Member
AI Council 1878 Member
AI Council 1879 Member
AI Council 1880 Member
AI Council 1881 Member
AI Council 1882 Member
AI Council 1883 Member
AI Council 1884 Member
AI Council 1889 President
AI Council 1890 President

House Notes

Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris; Corresponding Member of the Anthropological Society of Berlin; Hon. Member of the Anthropological Societies of Brussels and Washington

1905 HML Colour and race Delivered 31st Oct. at Society of Arts
death noted in the report of the council for 1911: An obituary of Doctor Beddoe, whose connection with the Anthropological Institute, or father its predecessor, the Ethnological Society, dates from 1854, has also appeared in Man, 1911, 93. In him the Institute has to regret the loss of its Senior Fellow. By a peculiar coincidence his last service to the Institute was the contribution of an obituary notice of his friend, Sir Francis Galton.

Notes From Elsewhere

John Beddoe (21 September 1826 - 19 July 1911[1]) was one of the most prominent English ethnologists in Victorian Britain
Beddoe was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire and educated at University College, London (BA (London)) and Edinburgh University (M.D. 1853). He served in the Crimean War and was a physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1862 to 1873. He retired from practice in Bristol in 1891.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873.[2] He was a founder of the Ethnological Society and president of the Anthropological Institute from 1889 to 1891.
Member of Athenaeum Club from 1888
Born Bewdley, Worcestershire; died Bradford-on-Avon. Served as assistant physician in Crimea War. Practised for most of his life in Bristol. Honorary Professor of Anthropology, Bristol University. Honorary Degree from Edinburgh University. Leading 19th century physical anthropologist and proponent of racism.

Publications

House Publications

Observations on certain Turk and other races on the shores of the Black sea
On the physical character of the natives of some parts of Italy, and of the Austrian dominions etc.
On the stature and bulk of man in the British Isles in Memoirs of the ASL Vol. 3 p. 384
On the physical characteristics of the Jews
On the Anthropology of Lancashire 1872
Mediaeval population of Bristol 1899
Method of estimating skull capacity from peripheral measures 1904
Somatology of 800 boys training for the Royal Navy 1904
Colour and race 1905
Skulls from Carmelite burial-ground, Bristol 1907
Scottish ethnology 1908

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U. of Bristol, UCL and Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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