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JOHN BEDDOE was bora September 21st, 1826, at 

 Bewdley, in Worcestershire, of a family settled in 

 Shropshire for many generations, but derived, it is said, 

 from an old Powysland stock, the fifth royal tribe of Wales. 

 He was educated at Bridgnorth School, then flourishing 

 under the Rev. Thomas Rowlej^, D.D., and after some years 

 of enforced idleness from ill health, entei-ed at University 

 College, London, in 1848. In 1851 he took the B.A. degree 

 of London, and next year the First i\LB.. examination. 

 Grrowing appalled, however, at the long vista that stretched 

 before him towards the M.D. Degree of London, he removed 

 to Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. in 1853, his thesis 

 being " On the Geography of Phthisis." 



In 1853, too, he first directed his attention to Anthro- 

 pology, and published his first paper on the subject, "A 

 Contribution to Scottish Ethnology." After a short time 

 spent in LTniversity College Hospital, he returned to Edin- 

 burgh, where he was successively house-physician under 

 Andrew, and house-surgeon under Spence. 



After good service in Turkey during the Crimean War, he 

 returned to Europe in 1856, travelled in Germany, spent a 

 winter in the hospitals of Vienna, and a spring in Hungary, 

 Italy, etc., and then settled down to practise as a physician 



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