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BEDFORD, JOHN, son of Rev. William Bedford, Bedford; b.; adm.; KS 1698; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1702, matr. 12 Jun 1702, aged 19, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1702 - 27 Jan 1714 (void, expiry year of grace as V. Willen); BA 1706; MA 1709 (incorp. Cambridge 1730); ordained; Vicar of Willen, Bucks., from 20 Jan 1712/3, being the first vicar presented by the Busby Trustees; d. Jan 1765.

BEDFORD, JOHN, brother of William Bedford (adm. 1718, qv); b.; adm. (aged 8) May 1719; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar Nov (?) 1726, matr. 1727; MD Padua 3 Mar 1735; practised as a physician in Durham, retiring about 1761 and becoming a recluse; m. 1st, 7 Jun 1738 Alice, dau. of William Davison, Beamish, co. Durham; m. 2nd, 26 Feb 1745/6 Elizabeth, dau. of Posthumus Smith, Commissary-General of Archdeaconry of Durham; m. 3rd, 22 Mar 1753 Dulcibella, dau. of Edward Horseman, Stretton, Rutland; buried St. Mary the Less, Durham, 26 Dec 1775.

BEDFORD, LOUIS HENRY, brother of George Sale Bedford (qv); b. 7 Jul 1819; adm. 30 Sep 1828 (Stikeman's); Ensign, 57th Foot, 27 Mar 1842; Lieut., 22 Mar 1843; Capt., 8 Mar 1850; 37th Foot 19 Dec 1851; served in Indian Mutiny; killed in a sortie from the entrenchments at Azringhur, Oudh, 28 Mar 1858.

BEDFORD, THOMAS, son of Thomas Bedford, Tothill Street, Westminster, clothworker, and Eline ---; bapt. 27 Oct 1644; adm.; BB Jun 1655- Mich. 1656 (Exch. K. R. Misc. Books, Ser. II, vol. 59; Exch. L. T. R. Misc. Rolls, Bundle 58); in school lists 1656; from an undated petition to the Governors (Chapter Muniments 43078), it appears that though Bedford had been a Bishop’s Boy “above six months and had received his salary, he was still without his purple gown”; in another petition the father begs for his son’s election into College (Chapter Muniments 32474).

BEDFORD, THOMAS, brother of William Bedford (adm. 1718, qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1718; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 5 May 1724, matr. 1724; did not graduate since a non-juror; received non-juring orders as priest 27 Dec 1731 (Notes and Queries, 3rd series, iii, 244); chaplain in the family of Sir John Cotton, Bart., at Angers, France; non-juring minister, residing successively in Durham and at Compton, near Ashbourne, Derbs.; edited Symeon of Durham’s De Exordio atque Procursu Dunhelmensis Ecclesiae Libellus, 1732, and a Historical Catechism, 1742; d. Feb 1773. DNB.

BEDFORD, WILLIAM CAMPBELL RILAND, son of William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford (qv); b. 29 May 1852; adm. 13 Apr 1865 (James'); left Aug 1869; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. 18 Oct 1871, matr. Mich. 1871; ran v. Oxford in the hurdles 1874, 1875, and in the 100 yards 1875; BA 1875; MA 1878; ordained deacon 1875, priest 1876 (both Worcester); Curate, St. Michael’s, Coventry, Warwicks., 1875-7, All Saints, Leamington, 1878; Vicar of Little Aston, Birmingham, 1878-81; Curate, Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., 1882-7; Vicar of Knowle, Warwicks., 1889-92; Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., 1892-1908; Hon. Canon Birmingham 1906-8; Grand Chaplain, United Grand Lodge of England, 1902; m. 5 Dec 1877 Eleanor Phoebe, fourth dau. of Sir James Timmins Chance, Bart., glass manufacturer; d. 15 Aug 1922.

BEDFORD, WILLIAM DEVAYNES, second son of George Bedford, Bedford Row, London, solicitor, and his first wife Judith, dau. of John Thompson, Chiswick, Middlesex; b. Dec 1801; adm. Christmas 1814; Ensign, 1st Foot, 6 Apr 1826; Lieut., 31 Jan 1827; 16th Lancers 5 Dec 1833; 95th Foot, 3 Jul 1835; 60th Foot, half-pay, 24 Jul 1835; Major of Brigade and DAAG, Anglo-Spanish Legion 1835-6; Paymaster, 11th Light Dragoons (Hussars), 28 Apr 1837; 87th Foot, 7 May 1847; half-pay, unattached, 28 Apr 1850; author, Some Suggestions for the Cheap Defence of the Kingdom, 1853; m. 13 Jul 1842 Anne Jane, eldest dau. of John Clerk, Southampton; d. 4 Aug 1872.

BEDFORD, WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK RILAND, eldest son of Rev. William Riland Bedford, Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., and Grace Campbell, dau. of Charles Sharpe, Hoddam, Dumfries-shire; b. 12 Jul 1826; adm. (G) 4 Jun 1839; QS 1840; left 1844; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Jun 1844; Secretary, Oxford Union 1847; BA 1848; MA 1852; ordained deacon 1849, priest 1850 (both Worcester); Curate, Southwell, Notts., 1849-50; Rector of Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., 1850-92, succeeding his uncle Richard Williamson (qv) and resigning in favour of his son William Campbell Riland Bedford (qv); Chaplain of Grand Lodge, Freemasons, 1861; Chaplain and Genealogist, Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, 1878-1902; JP (1848) Warwickshire; a keen cricketer and expert archer; founded the Free Foresters Cricket Club 1856; winner, Arden Medal for archery at Meriden, 1857; author, The Blazon of Episcopacy, 1858, Rowing at Westminster, 1890, and other works; m. 1st, 18 Sep 1851 Maria Amy, youngest dau. of Joseph Houson, Southwell, Notts.; m. 2nd, 1900 Margaret, dau. of Denis Browne; d. 23 Jan 1905. DNB.

BEDFORD, WILLIAM, son of Thomas Bedford, Little Barford, Beds.; bapt. Great Barford, Beds. 19 Sep 1699; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1715; at school four years; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Jul 1717, matr. 1718/9; BA 1721/2; MA 1725 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1733); ordained deacon (Lincoln) 10 Mar 1722/3, priest 31 May 1724; Curate Willen, Bucks.; Rector of Finningley, Notts., 9 Feb 1725/6, res Apr 1733; Rector of Yelden, Beds., from 26 Jan 1732/3; Rector of Shelton, Beds., 15 Mar 1734/5-46; Rector of St. John’s, Bedford (and Master of Hospital of St. John), from 9 Jun 1746; m. 1736 Sarah, widow of Peter Haslewood, Bedford, draper, Alderman of Bedford, and dau. of Matthew Lacy, Shillington, Beds.; d. 30 May 1754.

BEDFORD, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. Hilkiah Bedford, a non-juring clergyman (later non-juring bishop) who kept a boarding house at Westminster, and Alice, dau. of William Cooper, master mariner, Scarborough, Yorks.; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1718; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 29 May 1722; MD 1737; Leiden Univ., adm. 10 Sep 1727; medical practitioner in London; FRCP 30 Sep 1738, Gulstonian Lecturer 1740, Censor 1742, 1745, Registrar 1745-6; Physician to Christ’s Hospital from Nov 1746; FRS 1745 [check]; a friend of Thomas Hearne, the antiquary; m. 1st, 22 May 1739 Elizabeth Smart, St. Giles in the Fields, London; m. 2nd, Elizabeth ---; d. 10 Jul 1747.