Edward James Bedford

Rear Admiral Edward James Bedford (18 August 1810 – 1 July 1887) was a Royal Navy officer noted for his work as a surveyor, particularly in Scotland.

[2] Snap was surveying the coast of Newfoundland, determining the precise positions of the many headlands that had been well charted by James Cook, but without the aid of chronometers.

[2] Bedford joined the survey of Great Britain in 1832, and was promoted to Lieutenant in June of that year.

[2] Bedford's surveying work in Scotland led to the publication of about 20 Admiralty Charts.

[4] The coloured fair chart of his survey of Loch Awe (1861) was singled out by John Washington, Hydrographer of the Navy as "one of the most beautiful ever sent in".