| Activity | Educated University of Oxford (BA 1897). Oxford biological scholar, marine biological station, Naples 1897-98; curator, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery 1900-01; founded and edited a journal, "Life" 1902; market-gardener, Shiplake, Oxfordshire; demonstrator and lecturer, London Hospital Medical College 1906-14; migrated to Australia 1915 as Robert Bedford after a court action in England, settling at Kyancutta, South Australia; various activities in Australia, including working as a physician and veterinary surgeon, sending regular weather reports from Kyancutta to Adelaide, resulting in the recognition of Kyancutta as an official weather-station; experimented with a phonetic system of English; opened the Kyancutta Museum and Library 1929 to house his palaeontological specimens; examined meteorite craters, Henbury, Central Australia 1931-38. Founder, Adelaide Rationalist Society 1920. (Source: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P001547b.htm University of Melbourne, Bright Sparks biographies) |