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IN MEMORIAM, JOHN BEDDOE, M.D. 
Budd, and Brittain, were in full activity. He was at first on the 
staff of the Dispensary, but ere long became physician at the 
Royal Infirmary, where Long - Fox had also been recently elected. 
Even here, in the midst of professional work, he daily jotted 
down observations on the ethnological character of his patients, 
derived as they were from so many different stocks and races. 
In 1858 he married the daughter of the Rev. Alexander Christison, 
whose brother, Sir Robert, was so well known as a toxicologist. 
They lived in later years at the Manor House, and for some time 
previously at Mortimer House, Rodney Place. Near the latter 
there is still a monument of Dr. Beddoe's public spirit in the 
beautiful memorials to Chatham and the heroes of Clive's cam- 
paigns, which he rescued from destruction and re-erected on the 
edge of Clifton Down. They had been originally put up by Sir 
William Draper, the Conqueror of Manilla, when he retired to 
Clifton. 
As early as 1853 Dr. Beddoe published A Contribution to 
Scottish Ethnology, and while at Clifton he started a collective 
investigation into The Stature and Bulk of Man in the British 
Isles, which cost him infinite labour in preparation for publication. 
In 1867 he gained the prize of a hundred guineas from the Welsh 
National Eisteddfod for his Essay on the Origin of the English 
Nation, and in the next year was elected President of the 
Anthropological Society. He had long been a member of the 
Ethnological, and after the union of the two bodies as the 
Anthropological Institute he was chosen President in 1889. He 
was a prominent figure at the Meetings of the British Association, 
and his brilliant work brought him many friendships among 
scientific men in every part of Europe, such as Topinard, Broca, 
and Virchow. At Bristol he took an active share in all public 
movements, in which he was ably assisted by his wife. In his 
vacation tours he made endless investigations into racial problems 
in Great Britain, Ireland, and on the Continent, but in 1885 he 
undertook a voyage to Queensland, where he had some financial 
interests. At this time, too, was published his celebrated work 
The Races of Britain, in which he showed the persistence and 
locality of the various stocks of which our population is composed, 
and in support of his arguments marshalled the statistics which 
he had collected during a life time. After a few years more of 
medical practice in Clifton he retired to the Chantry, Bradford- 
on-Avon, in 1891, where he still continued his scientific researches, 
and took his share in public work on the County and Urban Councils. 
His Rhind lectures on The Anthropological History of Europe, and 
his inaugural Long Fox lecture on The Ideal Physician were 
supplemented with a long list of contributions to scientific journals, 
continued up to the present year. His friends in 1907 subscribed 
for a portrait of him which hangs in the Bristol Museum, while 
a medallion by Greig Smith rests in the Medical Library, 
memorials of one of the ablest and most indefatigable scientists 
who have adorned this city. 
G. Parker. 
