John Beddoe FRS FRAI (21 September 1826 – 19 July 1911) was one of the most prominent English ethnologists in Victorian Britain.

He served in the Crimean War alongside David Christison[1] and was a physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1862 to 1873.

[2] He and his wife Agnes were both friends with Mary Carpenter and they hosted what was said to be the first women's suffrage meeting in 1868.

[2] He is buried in the northern section of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh towards the western end.

[7] Beddoe gave the Rhind Lectures in 1891, on 'The Anthropological History of Europe'.