Frank Evers Beddard FRS FRSE (19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925) was an English zoologist.

His fellow lodger was the Scottish biologist and town planner Patrick Geddes.

In 1884 he was appointed prosector, responsible for preparing dissections of animals that had died, at the Zoological Society of London, following the death of William Alexander Forbes.

Apart from his publications on wide-ranging topics in zoology, such as Isopoda,[4] Mammalia,[5] ornithology,[6] zoogeography[7] and animal coloration,[8] Beddard became particularly noted as an authority on the annelids,[9] publishing two books on the group and contributing articles on earthworms, leeches and also on another phylum of worms, the Nematoda for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, where he used the initials "F.E.B.".

Hudson's 1919 The book of a naturalist, page 347:[9] One evening I was with Mr Frank E. Beddard at his club and taking advantage of the occasion, asked him some question about earthworms, he being the greatest authority in the universe on the subject.Beddard contributed biographies of zoologists William Henry Flower and John Anderson for the Dictionary of National Biography.