INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Beddome, Col. Richard Henry.
1830: son of R. B. Beddome educated at Charterhouse: joined Madras Army, 1848: Quartermaster and Interpreter of 24th Infantry, 1857: Assistant Conservator of Forests, Madras, 1857: Head of the Madras Forest Department, 1860 to 1832, when he retired as Colonel: Fellow, Madras University, 1880. Publications: The Flora Sylvatica of the Madras Presidency, (400 trees), The Ferns of Southern India, (345 plates), The Ferns of British India (661 ferns). Hand-book of the ferns of India, besides pamphlets on new reptiles and land shells discovered by him in India. Address: Sispara, West Hill, Putney.
Bedford, Lt-Col. Charles Henry, D.Sc., M.D. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., etc., Indian Medical Service; Director, Central Excise Laboratory for India, Chemical Examiner to the Governments of India and Bengal, Professor of Chemistry, Calcutta Medical College; b. 1886; son of late P. W. Bedford, D.C.L. Oxford, Lit.D. Dublin, Ph.D. Heidelberg; Educ.: Edinburgh University; Entered Indian Medical Service, 1889; Major, 1901; Lt. Col. 1909; conducted the Government of India’s Investigation into the Quality, Manufacture, and Control of Alcoholic Liquors in India; was scientific and technical adviser to the Indian Excise Committee, 1905-6; President for India, 6th International Congress of Applied Chemistry, Rome, 1906; Chemical Examiner to the Punjab Government; Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology, Lahore Medical College, for several years; Examiner in Universities of Calcutta, Allahabad, and Punjab; Editor, Indian Medical Gazette. Publications: The Quality, Manufacture, and Control of Alcoholic Liquors in India (Report to the Government of India 1906); two books on chemical subjects; Elementary Hygiene for Indian Students; The Symptoms and Treatment of Poisoning; The History, Causation, and Prevention of the Enteric fever of India; a Memoir of F. W. Bedford, D.C.L.; various reports to Government on his researches in connection with Excise and Customs problems; papers on chemical, Indian medicolegal, and medical subjects, and several Archeological papers (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot.), etc. Address: Kasauli, Punjab.
Bed Saran, Kurwar, Rani of Agori Barhar, Born, 1851; succeeded to title, 1871; the family belongs to Chandel clan of Rajputs. In 1871 Warren Hastings granted a sanad to Adil Shah, restoring to him the Zemindari of Agori Barhar with a money allowance of Rs. 8,000; this was afterwards exchanged for an additional grant of land, the revenue of which was assigned to the Raja; the estate was under the Court of Wards for some time, but has since been restored to the present Rani; the title of Raja, a hereditary one, was recognised, 1781; the estate comprises 400 whole villages, and shares in 13 others in Mirzapur. Address: Rajpur, Mirzapur, U.P.
Beer Bikram Singh Bahadur, Raj Kumar, Lieutenant Colonel, C.I.E.; Younger Son of H.H. Sir Shamsher Prakash Bahadur, Raja of Sirmoor; b, 1868 ed. at Nahan, Sirmoor State; served throughout Tirah Expedition with 2nd Div. 1897-8 (despatches, C.I.E.); Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army attached to Sirmoor Imperial
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