What is "beddome"

Beddome is a surname shared by the following notable people:

• Benjamin Beddome (1717–1795), English Baptist minister and hymnist
• Henry Septimus Beddome (c. 1830–1881) English (later Canadian) physician
• Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911), British naturalist working in India
• James Beddome (born 1983) Canadian politician