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Thomas Beddoes
Thomas Beddoes (13 April 1760 – 24 December 1808), English physician and scientific writer, was born in Shifnal, Shropshire. He was a reforming practitioner and teacher of medicine, and an associate of leading scientific figures.
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.〔Shaffer, E. S. (1980) ''Kubla Khan and The Fall of Jerusalem''. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521298075. particularly p. 28.〕 The poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was his son. A painting of him by Samson Towgood Roch is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
==Life==
Educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford, Beddoes enrolled in the University of Edinburgh's medical course in the early 1780s.〔 There he was taught chemistry by Joseph Black and natural history by John Walker. He also studied medicine in London under John Sheldon (1752–1808). In 1784 he published a translation of Lazzaro Spallanzani's ''Dissertations on Natural History'', and in 1785 produced a translation, with original notes, of Torbern Olof Bergman's ''Essays on Elective Attractions''.
He took his degree of doctor of medicine at Oxford in 1786, and, after visiting Paris, where he became acquainted with Lavoisier, was appointed reader in chemistry at Oxford University in 1788. His lectures attracted large and appreciative audiences; but his sympathy with the French Revolution excited a clamour against him, he resigned his readership in 1792. In the following year he published the ''History of Isaac Jenkins'', a story which powerfully exhibits the evils of drunkenness, and of which 40,000 copies are reported to have been sold.
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