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Buddicom, Robert Arthur (1874 - 1951) |
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| Museum director and Palaeontologist | |
| Born: 7 November 1874 Shropshire, England. Died: 14 February 1951 Kyancutta, South Australia, Australia. | |
| Robert Arthur Buddicom, who changed his name to Bedford when he arrived in Australia in 1915, established the Kyancutta Museum and Library on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. His major work was on meteorites, and archeocyathinae and related fossils. |
Career Highlights |
| Born Shropshire, England, 7 November 1874. Died Kyancutta, 14 February 1951. Educated University of Oxford (BA 1897). Oxford biological scholar, marine biological station, Naples 1897-98; curator, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery 1900-01; founded and edited a journal, "Life" 1902; market-gardener, Shiplake, Oxfordshire; demonstrator and lecturer, London Hospital Medical College 1906-14; migrated to Australia 1915 as Robert Bedford after a court action in Enlgand, settling at Kyancutta, South Australia; various activities in Australia, including working as a physician and veterinary surgeon, sending regular weather reports from Kyancutta to Adelaide, resulting in the recognition of Kyancutta as an official weather-station; experimented with a phonetic system of English; opened the Kyancutta Museum and Library 1929 to house his palaeontological specimens; examined meteorite craters, Henbury, Central Australia 1931-38. Founder, Adelaide Rationalist Society 1920. |
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