Career

He first worked at the British Museum of Natural History with F.V. Theobald and then was nominated as entomologist at the Division of Veterinary Services of the University of Pretoria in Onderstepoort on the 20. He will study there vertebrate parasites (mites, ticks and lice). He started to collect species of ticks for the National Tick Collection in 1912, with nymphs of Aponomma exornatum collected in In 1920, he is promoted Research Officer in He died in 1938 at the age of 46.

List of species discovered by Bedford in South Africa between 1912 and 1938: Argas peringueyi (Bedford & Hewitt, 1925) Rhipicephalus theileri (Bedford & Hewitt, 1925) Haemaphysalis cooleyi (Bedford, 1929) Ixodes elongatus (Bedford, 1929) Nuttalliella namaqua (Bedford, 1931) Argas striatus (Bedford, 1932) Rhipicephalus distinctus (Bedford, 1932) South. Nieschlilz, O.,, Du Toit, Royal Marines