Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

712–19. BRADSHAW, JOSEPH. Ensign 37 Foot 12 May 1825; lieut. col. 60 Rifles 9 May 1845 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Kussowlie, North Western provinces of India 18 Oct. 1851. BRADSHAW, LAWRENCE. Ensign 46 Foot 25 Sep. 1780; lieut. col. 13 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 2 Feb. 1803; major 1 Life Guards 2 Feb. 1803 to 1 March 1812 when he sold out; a comr. of military inquiry 1806–12; M.G. 25 July 1810, retired 1826. _d._ Harley st. London 10 Jany. 1853 aged 84. BRADSHAW, THOMAS JOSEPH CAVENDISH (_eld. son of Joseph Hoare Bradshaw of London, banker who d. 24 May 1845 aged 61_). _b._ 17 Oct. 1824; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; secretary to Royal commission on judicature 1867–71; judge of county courts of Northumberland (Circuit No. 1) 27 Oct. 1871 to death. _d._ in a room adjoining town hall, Newcastle 17 Dec. 1884. BRADSTREET, SIR SIMON, 4 Baronet. _b._ Upper Leeson st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1772; succeeded March 1791; a member of Repeal association many years. _d._ Clontarf near Dublin 25 Oct. 1853. BRADWELL, EDMUND (_son of Wm. Bradwell of Covent Garden theatre London, mechanician who d. 4 Aug. 1849_). Theatrical decorator and mechanician in London; introduced some extraordinary mechanical changes into Tom Dibdin’s pantomime of _Guy, Earl of Warwick_ at Victoria theatre Dec. 1833; mechanician at Olympic, Lyceum, Her Majesty’s and other theatres. _d._ 11 Magdala terrace, Lordship lane Dulwich 25 July 1871 aged 72. _Era 30 July 1871, p._ 11, _col._ 4. BRADY, SIR ANTONIO (_eld. son of Anthony Brady, storekeeper at Royal William victualling yard, Plymouth_). _b._ Deptford 10 Nov. 1811; junior clerk in Royal Victoria victualling yard Deptford 29 Nov. 1828; clerk in accountant general’s office London 26 June 1844; registrar of contracts 1864; superintendent of purchase and contract department 13 April 1869 to 31 March 1870 when he retired on a special pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 June 1870; promoted the Plaistow mission and East London museum; pres. of Inventors’ Institute; a judge in Verderer’s Court for forest of Epping; made a collection of fossil Mammalia which is now in Natural history museum Kensington; author of _The Church’s work and its hindrances with suggestions for church reform_ 1869; _Catalogue of Pleistocene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex_ 1874. _d._ Maryland point, Forest lane, Stratford Essex 12 Dec. 1881. _Geological Mag. 1882, p._ 93. 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