b. 30 June 1803. d. 26 January 1849. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, satirist, playwright, and physician. Father was Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808).
Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, and studied medicine at Göttingen and Würzburg.
Great admirer of Percy Shelley and helped to publish his *Posthumous Poems* (1824).
Known for his radical political poems and speeches in Germany. Author of *The Improvisatore*
(1821, which he later suppressed), *The Bride’s Tragedy* (1822), *The *Death’s Jest*
(1855, published posthumously). Died a victim of suicide. Biographical information:
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