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BIOGRAPHY He wrote various medical books, and many books on Christian apologetics, with a special interest in creation and evolution. He was a member of the Plymouth Brethren and also a much-in-demand speaker in Brethren and InterVarsity Fellowship circles.www.answersingenesis.org JOHN BODKIN ADAMS In 1920 , Rendle Short gave a lecture at a missionary study-class conference in Larne , County Antrim . It was attended by a young John Bodkin Adams , also a Plymouth Brethren, who was studying medicine at the University of Belfast. His uncle John Bodkin had been a famous missionary and later Mandarin in China . Hearing of this connection, Rendle Short offered Adams a position as assistant Houseman at Bristol Royal Infirmary . Adams however did not prove a success. One sunday in 1922 at a Brethren meeting, Rendel Short handed Adams an advert his wife had seen in a Christian weekly - a position as a General Practitioner in Eastbourne. Reluctantly Adams took the hint, applied and was hired. Adams would go on to develop a successful career there, specially in treating ageing widows, and became the richest doctor in Britain.Cullen, 2006 In 1956 , Adams was arrested in Eastbourne for the murders of Edith Alice Morrell and Gertrude Hullett . He was tried on the former count in 1957 but controversially acquitted, the Hullett case was then dropped. Adams was charged on 14 minor criminal acts and struck off the medical register later that year. He was reinstated in 1961 . Despite never being found guilty of murder, Home Office pathologist Francis Camps suspected Adams of killing 163 patients.Cullen, 2006 Perhaps mercifully, Rendel Short died in October 1953 , before the trial of his 'protege'.www.answersingenesis.org FAMILY His son Tyndale John Rendle-Short AM FRCP , is Professor Emeritus at the University Of Queensland and specialises in child Autism . He spells his name with a hyphen. BELIEFS Rendel Short had many problems reconciling the discoveries of Darwin with his beliefs as a Brethren member. His son wrote: :‘How could the Fall of man have brought sin and death into the world, if the fossils were showing a creation ‘groaning’ for millions of years before man? How could man be both a rising ape and a fallen image? These were agonizing questions for my father.’ PUBLISHED WORKS
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