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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell 1803-49
English poet and physiologist

Born in Clifton, near Bristol, the eldest son of Thomas Beddoes, he was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. In 1822 he published The Bride's Tragedy, a sombre murder drama. He went to Göttingen (1825) to study medicine, and then led a wandering life as doctor and democrat, in Germany and Switzerland, with occasional visits to England. From 1825 he was engaged in the composition of a Gothic-Romantic drama in blank verse, Death's Jest-book, which appeared in 1850, a year after his suicide.

Bibliography: H W Donner, Thomas Lovell Beddoes: the making of a poet (1935); The Letters of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1894)