John Beddoe
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Occupation | ethnologist |
John Beddoe
Life
Beddoe was born in
He was elected a
He died at Bradford-on-Avon on 19 July 1911.[2] He is buried in the northern section of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh towards the western end.
Family
In 1858, he married Agnes Montgomerie Cameron (d.1914), granddaughter of Prof Alexander Christison and niece of Robert Christison.[2] She was the sister of his friend Dr David Christison. Together they had a son and a daughter.[6]
Works
Beddoe was a pioneer in making observations of living people, in particular of their hair and eye colours, which he believed to be valuable evidence of the origins of the British people. His essay The Origin of the English Nation won a prize offered by the Welsh National Eisteddfod in 1867. This was later expanded and published in 1885 as Races of Britain.[7]
Beddoe gave the Rhind Lectures in 1891, on 'The Anthropological History of Europe'.[8]
Notes
- ^ The Crimean Doctors by John Shepherd
- ^ a b c d James 1912.
- ^ Jane Martin, ‘Browne, Annie Leigh (1851–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 Jan 2017
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
- ^ "John Beddoe". history.rcplondon.ac.uk. Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ Gray, John. "John Beddoe". therai.org.uk. Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ "List of 133 Lecturers". The Rhind Lectures. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
References
- John Gray (1911). "93. John Beddoe, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., Foreign Assoc. Anthrop. Soc., Paris; Corr. Member Anthrop. Soc., Berlin; Hon. Member Anthrop. Soc., Brussels and Washington, Soc. Friends of Science, Moscow". Man. 11: 151–153. JSTOR 2840440.
- James, T. E. (1912). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- Richardson, Angelique. "Beddoe, John (1826–1911)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30666. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- The Races of Britain: A Contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe, Bristol and London, John Beddoe, J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol & Trübnermm, London, 1885; republished by Hutchinson, London, 1971, ISBN 0-09-101370-4.
External links
- Media related to John Beddoe at Wikimedia Commons