John Carr Badeley

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John Carr Badeley
Born1794; christened 3 August 1794
Died(1851-09-22)22 September 1851 (aged 57)
Occupationphysician
Known forHarveian Oration (1849)[2]

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

Biography[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Badeley, John Carr (BDLY812JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ a b "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. Vol. 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. ^ Burke, Bernard (1898). "Badeley of Leigh's Hall". Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Britain & Ireland (9th ed.). p. vii.