C. Marsh Beadnell

Surgeon Rear-Admiral Charles Marsh Beadnell, CB (17 February 1872 – 27 September 1947), best known as C. Marsh Beadnell, was a British surgeon and Royal Navy officer.^[1]^[2]

Beadnell was born in Rawalpindi. He was educated at Cheltenham College and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Society and of the Royal Anthropological Institute.^[1] A rationalist and sceptic, he was president of the Rationalist Press Association (1940–1947).^[1]^[3]

Beadnell described himself as a "devout agnostic".^[4] He died in Petersfield, Hampshire.

Selected publications

The Reality or Unreality of Spiritualistic Phenomena: Being a Criticism of Dr. W.J. Crawford's Investigation into Levitations and Raps (1920)
A Picture Book of Evolution: Adapted from the Work of the Late Dennis Hird (1932)
Fireside Science (1934) [with Ray Lankester]
Dictionary of Scientific Terms, as Used in the Various Sciences (1938)
The Origin of the Kiss and Other Scientific Diversions (1942)
An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Science and War (1943)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Anonymous. (1947). "Surgeon Rear-Admiral C. M. Beadnell, C.B.". Nature 160: 598-598.
^ Bowler, Peter J. (2009). Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. University Of Chicago Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-0226068633
^ Cooke, Bill. (2004). The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association. Prometheus Books. p. 325. ISBN 978-1591021964
^ Anonymous. (1947). "C. M. BEADNELL, C.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P." British Medical Journal 2 (4527): 591-592.