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Behrens, Edward Michael
Person · 1911-1989

Edward Michael Behrens was a British financier, banker, stockbroker and restaurant and gallery owner, who became the co-owner of the Ionian Bank. Through his ownership of the Hanover Gallery, he was an early patron of the artist Francis Bacon

Beechey, Wendy M
Person · fl 1957

Part-Time Assistant in the Education Department at ZSL London Zoo

Beddington, John Rex, Sir
Person · 1945-

Sir John Rex Beddington is a British population biologist and Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London, and the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2008 until 2013. He is the President of the Zoological Society of London.

Beddard, Frank Evers
Person · 1858-1925

Frank Evers Beddard was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, the son of John Beddard. He was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford.

Beddard was naturalist to the Challenger Expedition Commission from 1882-1884. In 1884 he was appointed prosector at the Zoological Society of London. He was also Vice-Secretary at the Society.

He became lecturer in biology at Guy's Hospital, examiner in zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of London, and lecturer in morphology at Oxford University.

Apart from his publications on wide-ranging topics in zoology such as isopoda, mammalia, ornithology, zoogeography and animal coloration, Beddard became noted as an authority on the annelids, publishing two books on the group and contributing articles on earthworms, leeches and the nematoda for the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Beddard contributed biographies of zoologists William Henry Flower and John Anderson for the Dictionary of National Biography. He was the author of volume 10 (mammalia) of the Cambridge Natural History. Beddard's olingo (Pocock, 1921) is named after him.

Beddall, Jesse
Person · 1877-

Labourer at ZSL London Zoo

Beaumont, John Thomas Barber
Person · 1774-1841

John Thomas Barber Beaumont was a British army officer, painter, author and philanthropist. He was successful in the insurance business, and projected a settlement in South America