Samuel Lawrence Bedson (February 3, 1842 – July 17, 1891) was a British-born military man and later prison warden who spent much of his life in Canada. Bedson came to Lower Canada with the 16th Regiment of Foot in 1861 as a private and stayed on, joining the 2nd Quebec Rifles in 1870. With the rank of quartermaster sergeant, he traveled west with the Wolseley Expedition in response to the Red River Rebellion at the Red River Colony in present-day Manitoba.