Born at Blandford St Mary in Dorsetshire, where his father was rector, becoming afterwards rector of Balham. He was educated at the Grammar School, Clapham, under Charles Pritchard, DD, FRS, who was appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford in 1870. Bellamy entered the applied science department at King’s College, London, in January, 1859, showing marked proficiency in mathematics, mechanics, chemistry, and drawing. He studied for the entrance examination for the Royal Engineers, but in 1860 entered the medical department of King’s College. He came under the notice of Richard Partridge (qv) as a good dissector and acted as dresser to Sir William Fergusson (qv). At King’s College he acted successively as Prosector and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy until he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Medical School of Charing Cross Hospital in 1867, where Richard Partridge had been a surgeon until 1840. In 1871 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital and Teacher of Operative Surgery, becoming Lecturer on Anatomy (1874-1888) and full Surgeon in 1877. He lectured on surgery from 1888-1891. He succeeded John Marshall (qv) as Professor of Artistic Anatomy at South Kensington in 1873, and immediately published a Student’s *Guide to Surgical Anatomy*, for which he drew from nature the originals of the engravings which illustrate it. As a lecturer to art students he was noted for his facile drawings on the blackboard. He was Examiner in Surgery at the Victoria University and at Durham, an Examiner in Anatomy (1880-1884), and at the time of his death a Member of the Court of Examiners of the College. He had previously suffered from pneumonia when at the beginning of 1891 his life was cut short at the age of 49 in the epidemic of influenza. He had lived at 17 Wimpole Street, and left a widow and several children. Publications: *The Student’s Guide to Surgical Anatomy*, 1873; 3rd ed., 1885. Braune’s *Atlas of Topographical Anatomy from Plain Sections of Frozen Bodies*, which Bellamy translated and edited, 1877. He also contributed many articles to Ashhurst’s *Surgery*, Quain’s *Dictionary of Medicine*, and Heath’s *Dictionary of Surgery*.