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'''John Beddoe'''
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ESL Council 1858-59 Member [retiring]<br />ESL Council 1864-65 Member [proposed]<br />ESL Council 1865-66 Member <br />ESL Council 1866-67 Member <br />ESL Council 1867-68 Member [retiring]<br /><br />ASL Council 1867 Vice President<br />ASL Council 1868 Vice President<br />ASL Council 1869 President<br />ASL Council 1870 President<br />ASL Council 1871 Member<br /><br />LAS Council 1873 Member<br />LAS Council 1874 Member<br />LAS Council 1875 Member<br /><br />AI Council 1871 Member<br />AI Council 1873 Vice President<br />AI Council 1874 Member<br />AI Council 1875 Member<br />AI Council 1876 Member<br />AI Council 1877 Member<br />AI Council 1878 Member<br />AI Council 1879 Member<br />AI Council 1880 Member<br />AI Council 1881 Member<br />AI Council 1882 Member<br />AI Council 1883 Member<br />AI Council 1884 Member<br />AI Council 1889 President<br />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<br /><br />1905 HML Colour and race Delivered 31st Oct. at Society of Arts<br />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<br />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.<br />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.<br />Member of Athenaeum Club from 1888<br />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.<br />
