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V.
In Memoriam : Sir Antonio Brady, J.P., F.G.S., &c.1
On December 12th, 1881, passed away from among us a
man whose name will be long identified with the history of
practical geological investigation in Essex.
Sir Antonio Brady was the eldest son of the late Anthony
Brady, of the Royal William Victualling Yard, Plymouth, by
Marianne, daughter of the late Francis Perigal, and was
born on the 10th of November, 1811, his age at the time of
his death being consequently seventy years. If we may
believe the records of the Irish Herald Office, the pedigree of
tho Brady family goes back to very early times indeed—to
Milesius, of Spain, who was the first conqueror of Ireland !
One ancestor was the Most Reverend Hugh Brady, first
Protestant Bishop of Meath, consecrated in 1563. Other
relatives of Sir Antonio were Dr. Nicholas Brady, compiler,
in conjunction with Dr. Tait, of that metrical paraphrase of
the Psalms of David which was so long used in our churches,
and the Bight. Hon. Maziere Brady, who died in 1858, after
filling the office of Lord High Chancellor of Ireland on three
distinct occasions. His mother's family, the Perigals, came
to England at the time of the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes in 1685. Antonio Brady was educated at Corf's
School, Lewisham, under the Rev. Dr. Waite, Vicar of
Greenwich, and Chaplain to the Royal Family. He entered
the Civil Service of the Navy as a junior clerk in the Royal
Victualling Yard at Deptford, more than fifty years since.
In that capacity he served also at Plymouth and Portsmouth,
being afterwards promoted, for the marked abilities he dis-
played, to head-quarters in the Admiralty at Somerset
1 This short memoir is compiled from information kindly furnished by
the Rev. Nicholas Brady, and from Dr. Woodward's obituary notice in
'Nature' for December 22nd, 1881,—En.