BRADY, Elizabeth (2 dau. of Jacob Hutchinson of Islington, London). b. Islington 1803; ed. at Islington school where she was successively apprentice, teacher, and governess, head mistress there 1838–42; superintendent of the York Girls’ school 1842–46; conducted a school for daughters of Friends at Edgbaston Birmingham 1848–69. (m. 1828 Edward Foster Brady head master of Islington school who d. 1838). d. Edgbaston 22 May 1874. The Annual Monitor for 1876, pp. 20–25.
BRADY, Sir Francis (son of James Brady of Navan, Meath). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar 1836; chief justice of Newfoundland and judge of vice admiralty court 15 Oct. 1847 to 1865; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. (m. 1839 Kate dau. of David Lynch of Dublin, she d. 16 Jany. 1880). d. 59 Burlington road, Bayswater London 29 Dec. 1871.
BRADY, Sir Maziere, 1 Baronet (2 son of Francis Tempest Brady of Dublin, gold and silver thread manufacturer 1763–1821). b. Dublin 20 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. 1812–16, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816; called to Irish bar 1819; barrister I.T. 1835; solicitor general for Ireland 1837; attorney general 1839; P.C. Ireland 1839; chief baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Aug. 1840 to 1846; lord chancellor of Ireland 1846 to Feb. 1852, Jany. 1853 to 1858 and 1859 to 28 June 1866; vice chancellor of Queen’s Univ. Ireland 1850 to death. d. 26 Upper Pembroke st. Dublin 13 April 1871. O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 270–7.
BRAE, Andrew Edmund. Practised as dentist at Leeds to 1872; lived in Guernsey 1872 to death; author of Literary cookery with reference to matter attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare 1855; Electrical communication in railway trains 1865; The treatise on the Astrolabe of G. Chaucer, edited by A. E. B. 1870; wrote many papers on Shakespeare and Chaucer in first series of Notes and Queries under signature of A. E. B. d. London 10 Dec. 1881. bur. Mont Durand, Guernsey. Notes and Queries, 6 series vi, 323 (1882).
BRAGGE, William (3 son of Thomas Perry Bragge of Birmingham, manufacturing jeweller). b. Birmingham 31 May 1823; a civil engineer; constructed the first railway line in Brazil namely from Rio Janeiro to Petropolis; knighted and made a chevalier by Emperor of Brazil; partner with John Brown in Atlas Steel works, Sheffield 1858–64 when works were sold to a limited company and he received sum of £50,000, managing director of the company 1864–72; established works at Birmingham for manufacture of watches by machinery 1876 which became English Watch company in 1882; M.I.M.E. 1854, F.S.A. 1870; sold his collection of illuminated manuscripts for £12,272, June 1878, and his collection of 13000 pipes and smoking apparatus for £4,000 Feb. 1882; author of Bibliotheca Nicotiana, a catalogue of books about tobacco 1880. d. 59 Hall road, Handsworth, Birmingham 6 June 1884.
BRAHAM, Charles Bampfylde (son of the succeeding). b. 20 Dec. 1823; made his first appearance on stage at Princess’s theatre London 26 Oct. 1848 as Adelmar in Leoline; sang in Italy and Portugal with great success. d. 103 Ebury st. Pimlico, London 11 June 1884.
BRAHAM, John (son of John Abraham of Goodman’s Fields, London, a German Jew). b. Goodman’s Fields 20 June 1773; pupil of Myer Lyon otherwise Leoni; made his début at Bagnigge Wells assembly rooms; changed his name to Braham 1787; sang at Bath 1794–6, Drury Lane 1796, in Paris 1797 and Italy 1798–1801,at Covent Garden 1801–5 and Drury Lane 1805–24; sang in Italian opera at King’s theatre London 1804–6 and 1816; made £14,000 per annum 1801–24; built St. James’s theatre London in 14 weeks at cost of £36,000 Sep.-Dec. 1835, managed it 1835–9; sang in New York Nov. 1840; composed music to The Cabinet 1801; Family Quarrells 1802 and 10 other dramas. d. The Grange, Brompton, London 17 Feb. 1856. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 145–59 (1825), portrait; Metropolitan Mag. xviii, 130–42 (1837); Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii, 91–5 (1881); I.L.N. xx, 245–6 (1852), portrait; P. Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii, 226, vi, 145.
BRAID, George Ross. b. May 1813; made his first appearance in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Sep. 1843; acted at Haymarket theatre many years. d. Holly house, Kennington road London 18 Feb. 1878.
BRAID, James (son of Mr. Braid of Rylaw, Fifeshire). b. Rylaw about 1795; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin.; surgeon at Manchester; investigated subject of mesmerism 1841; author of Neurypnology or the rationale of nervous sleep 1843; The power of the mind over the body 1846; Magic, witchcraft, animal magnetism, hypnotism and electro-biology 3 ed. 1852. d. 25 March 1860. Med. Times and Gaz. i, 355, 386 (1860); Manchester Courier 31 March 1860.
BRAIDWOOD, James (son of Mr. Braidwood of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edinburgh 1800; ed. at the High sch.; engaged in his father’s business; superintendent of Edinburgh fire engines 1823; published his work “On the construction of Fire Engines and Apparatus, the training of firemen and the method of proceeding in cases of Fire” 1830; superintendent of London Fire Engine establishment formed by 8 of the Insurance companies 1 Jany. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1833; read many papers on subject of fires at Institute of Civil Engineers and Society of Arts; killed in great fire at Cotton’s wharf, Tooley st. London 22 June 1861 which continued burning for a month and destroyed property of the value of £2,000,000. J. Braidwood’s Fire prevention with memoir of the author (1866), portrait; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 571–8 (1862).