Record

Code	PX295
Dates	1866-1953
Person Name	Bedford; Edward John (1866-1953); Photographer and Artist
Surname	Bedford
Forenames	Edward John
Epithet	Photographer and Artist
Activity	A pupil at the Lewes School of Art in Albion Street (now the library), his talents led him in 1883 to take up a career in teaching at Brighton School of Art and it was there that he developed a passion for photography. A keen antiquarian and member of the Sussex Archaeological Society, he made detailed photographic records of events in Lewes. He served as secretary of the Lewes Photographic Society when it was established in 1888. He was fascinated by the railway and, as a keen student of natural history, he was influential in setting up the Lewes Scientific and Literary Society. He also spent much of his time as curator of the Lewes Borough Museum, set up in the old Market Tower. The closure of the art school enabled the museum to move to Albion Street where Bedford collected widely and variedly. The records solemnly record the gift of such treasures as a stuffed duck-billed platypus. Bedford lectured as late as 1946 on wild flowers to the Royal Photographic Society. Bedford donated numerous paintings to the Natural History Museum

Catalogue

RefNo	Title	Source
DF/PUB/509/114	British orchids 5: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F20)
DF/BOT/400/15/38	Correspondence B
DF/PUB/509/112	British orchids 3: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F18)
DF/PUB/509/135	British orchids 9: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F41)
DF/PUB/509/115	British orchids 6: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F21)
DF/PUB/509/113	British orchids 4: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F19)
DF/PUB/509/133	British orchids 7: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F39)
DF/ZOO/232/5/18/2/8	Bedford, E.J.
DF/ZOO/232/5/14/2/8	Bedford, E.J.
DF/PUB/509/111	British orchids 2: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F17)
DF/PUB/509/134	British orchids 8: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F40)
DF/ADM/1004/52	Bequests: E J Bedford collection of photographs of orchids
DF/ZOO/232/5/7/1/4	Bedford, E. J.
DF/PUB/509/110	British orchids 1: 5 coloured cards from drawings by E J Bedford (F16)
DF/PUB/509/288	4 postcards featuring Britain's Wildlife taken from the Nature Navigator picture gallery
DF/ZOO/232/6/12/2/7	Bedford, E.J
DF/ZOO/232/5/17/2/10	Bedford, E.J.
DF/PH/19/1/13	Excavation in gravel: 'where the Piltdown skull was found'
DF/PH/3/1/648	Gallery Photograph Album 1: Nest of great titmouse
DF/ZOO/232/5/11/1/14	Bedford, E.J.
DF/PH/19/1/1	Excavations at Piltdown site, with (left to right) 'Venus' Hargreaves, Arthur Smith Woodward and Charles Dawson
DF/PH/19/1/11	Men working at Piltdown: Robert Kenward jnr, Charles Dawson, 'Venus' Hargreaves and Arthur Smith Woodward
DF/PH/19/1/12	Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward searching gravels at Piltdown and view of excavation in the gravel

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