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the Elk” {Journal of the Linnean Society , vol. xiv.) ; “Notes on 
. . . . two Species of Crustacea {Ann. and Mag. of Nat. History , 
1870), and “Notes on Congenital Absence of the Kidney” {Edin. 
Med. Jour., 1874). 
Rev. Francis Red ford, M.A. By Henry Barnes, M.D. 
The Rev. Francis Bedford, M.A., who died on the 20th of last 
September, was one of the oldest and most notable clergymen in the 
diocese of Carlisle. He was horn at York in 1813, and at an early 
period showed remarkable intelligence and aptitude for scientific 
work. He received his early education in the public schools of the 
city in which he was born, and afterwards, with the intention of 
adopting the medical profession, he entered King’s College, London, 
as a medical student. After obtaining some considerable amount 
of medical training, which was very useful to him in after life, 
circumstances arose which made it desirable that he should adopt 
another career, and in 1837 he was sent out by the Church 
Missionary Society to Trinidad as a catechist. He remained in 
that country for four years, doing much good work, but owing to 
failure in health he was compelled to return to this country in 
1841. 
He then set about studying for the ministry of the English 
Church, and I am informed he was ordained deacon on June 11, 
1843, by Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London. He held 
curacies both in Herefordshire and Nottinghamshire, but a love of 
missionary work and travel induced him to again try the climate of 
the West Indies, and in 1844 he went out to Jamaica. A break- 
down in his health compelled him to return in 1847. Three years 
later, in 1850, he was appointed to the living of St Paul’s, Silloth, 
and here he continued to reside during the remainder of his life. 
Here it was that he made those observations on meteorology by 
which he will chiefly be remembered. At the time of his appoint- 
ment, the now popular watering-place of Silloth was a desert of 
sandhills ; there was not a single house there, and the part which he 
took in developing the place and promoting its prosperity is generally 
recognised. In the place of a sandy desert, there is now an 
