John Carr Badeley

John Carr Badeley (1794–1851) was an English physician.

John Carr Badeley
Born1794; christened 3 August 1794
Chelmsford, Essex[1]
Died(1851-09-22)22 September 1851 (aged 57)
Cause of deathaccidental overdose of opium[1]
NationalityEnglish
Occupationphysician
Known forHarveian Oration (1849)[2]

Biography

After education at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford and at Charterhouse, he matriculated on 16 March 1812 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated there MB (Cantab.) in 1817 and MD in 1822.[1]

Badeley was physician to Chelmsford Dispensary for twenty years. He was also inspecting physician to the lunatic asylums in Essex.[1] He was elected FRCP in 1825. He gave the Harveian Oration in 1849[2][3] and the Lumleian Lectures in 1851.[4]

On 9 April 1835 he married Althea Faithfull Fanshawe.[1] They had five sons and six daughters. Among their five sons was Captain Henry Badeley, who was the father of Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, 1st Baron Badeley.[5]

gollark: You can't reasonably ascribe rights to people who never existed/*might* exist because that is very very problematic.
gollark: The child you talk about never existed.
gollark: > I mind if someone kills me, but in theory they shouldn't*Why* do you mind?
gollark: > there's no difference ultimately in choosing to have one less child and in killing an adultYes there is...
gollark: do you mind if someone kills *you* then?

References
  1. "Badeley, John Carr (BDLY812JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. "John Carr Badeley". Royal College of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows, Munk's Roll, Vol. III.
  3. "Review of Oratio ex Harveii Instituto by J. C. Badeley". Lancet. 1. 1850. pp. 210–211. (Before 1865 the Harveian Oration was given in Latin.)
  4. Badeley, John Carr (1851). On the Reciprocal Agencies of Mind and Matter, and on Insanity: Being the Lumleian Lectures, Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, A.D. 1851. London: John Churchill.
  5. "Badeley of Leigh's Hall". Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Britain & Ireland (9th ed.). 1898. p. vii.
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