Dr Frank Evers Beddard (19 June 1858–14 July 1925)

British Zoologist. He was educated at Harrow then studied at New College, Oxford, taking 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, a post which he held until 1915. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1892 and Lecturer in Biology at Guy's Hospital, and was also an Examiner in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of London, and in Morphology at Oxford and the University of New Zealand. Beddard was awarded the gold medal of the Linnean Society in 1916 for his work on oligochaetes and elected a corresponding member of the America Ornithologists Union in 1917. FRS.