Thomas Beddoes

Thomas Beddoes
Thomas Beddoes, pencil drawing by Edward Bird
Born	(1760-04-13)13 April 1760 Shifnal, England
Died	24 December 1808(1808-12-24) (aged 48)
Nationality	British
Education	Bridgnorth Grammar School
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Oxford, University of Edinburgh
Occupation	Physician
Known for	History of Isaac Jenkins
Spouse	Anna Maria Edgeworth 1773–1824
Children	Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Thomas Beddoes (13 April 1760 – 24 December 1808) was an English physician and scientific writer. He was born in Shifnal, Shropshire and died in Bristol fifteen years after opening his medical practice there. He was a reforming practitioner and teacher of medicine, and an associate of leading scientific figures. He worked to treat tuberculosis.

Beddoes was a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and, according to E. S. Shaffer, an important influence on Coleridge's early thinking, introducing him to the higher criticism.^[1] The poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was his son. A painting of him by Samson Towgood Roch is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.