| Activity | He was educated at Harrow then studied at New College, Oxford. He took the degrees of M.A. and D.Sc. Beddard was naturalist to the 'Challenger' Expedition Commission from 1882 to 1884. In 1884 he was appointed prosector to the Zoological Society. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1892. Beddard was Prosector of the Zoological Society, 1884-1915, and Lecturer in Biology at Guy's Hospital, and has also been an Examiner in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of London, and in Morphology at Oxford and the University of New Zealand.
He was awarded the gold medal of the Linnean Society in 1916 and elected a corresponding member of the America Ornithologists Union in 1917. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1882, A Member of the British Ornithologists Union 1884 - 1902. A fellow of the Royal Society 1892 and a fellow of the Royal Zoological Society and the royal microscopical society. |