C. Marsh Beadnell

Surgeon Rear-Admiral Charles Marsh Beadnell, CB (17 February 1872 – 27 September 1947), best known as C. Marsh Beadnell, was a British surgeon and Royal Navy officer.Anonymous. (1947). [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v160/n4070/abs/160598a0.html "Surgeon Rear-Admiral C. M. Beadnell, C.B."]. Nature 160: 598-598.Bowler, Peter J. (2009). Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. University Of Chicago Press. p. 281. {{ISBN|978-0226068633}}

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Beadnell was born in Rawalpindi. He was educated at Cheltenham College and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Chemical Society and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. A rationalist and sceptic, he was president of the Rationalist Press Association (1940–1947).Cooke, Bill. (2004). The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association. Prometheus Books. p. 325. {{ISBN|978-1591021964}}

Beadnell described himself as a "devout agnostic".Anonymous. (1947). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2055821/pdf/brmedj03750-0035.pdf "C. M. BEADNELL, C.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P."] British Medical Journal 2 (4527): 591-592. He died in Petersfield, Hampshire.