Innocent. Family In 1858 Berdoe was married in Hastings to Mary Inskipp. They had two sons and four daughters. A lifelong teetotaller and vegetarian, his immersion in Browning's writings led him to seek greater knowledge of the Roman Catholic Church, which he joined in 1890. Selected publications St. Bernard's: The Romance of a Medical Student (1888) Dying Scientifically: A Key to St. Bernard's (1888) The Futility of Experiments With Drugs on Animals (1889) The Healing Art and the Claims of Vivisection (1890) The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art (1893) Browning's Message to His Time: His Religion, Philosophy, and Science (1893) The Browning Cyclopædia, A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning (1897) A Catechism of Vivisection (1903) References External links Short biography 1836 births 1916 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors 19th-century English writers 20th-century English writers 20th-century English male writers British animal welfare scholars Anti-vivisectionists