96 In Memoriam: Sir Antonio Brady.
He had but a small family; one son, the Rev. Nicholas
Brady, M.A., now Rector of Wennington, Essex; and two
daughters, Fanny Maria, wife of the Venerable William
Emery, B.D., Archdeacon and Canon of Ely, and Elizabeth
Kilner, unmarried. On his marriage in 1837 Sir Antonio
came to reside at Maryland Point, Stratford, where he lived
until his death. In 1870 he retired from the Admiralty,
and received the honour of Knighthood in recognition of the
arduous and unremitting labours he had undertaken in con-
nection with the Civil Service, extending over forty years.
His death took place with alarming suddenness while dressing
in the morning, the immediate cause being angina pectoris,
from which he had been suffering for some days. He was
buried in the family vault in St. John's Churchyard, Strat-
ford, the funeral being attended by an immense congregation
of friends and neighbours.
Sir Antonio Brady took great interest in all the philan-
thropic and intellectual movements of his time. On his
retirement from official life, he devoted himself heartily to
aiding by every means within his power the social, educa-
tional, and religious advancement of his neighbours; and
his name will long be remembered in connection with the
Victoria Docks Mission, the Free and Open Church Associa-
tion, and the various benefit societies in Essex and elsewhere.
He took great interest in sanitary reform, and at the time of
the cholera epidemic he was most indefatigable in his efforts
to relieve the sufferings and distress then rampant. In the
cause of technical education he was most zealous, and it was
mainly through his instrumentality that the East London
Museum at Bethnal Green was inaugurated for the promotion
of Technical Art and Science, a work in which he was greatly
assisted by Dr. Miller and the Rev. Septimus Hansard.
In the battle for the rescue of Epping Forest from the
clutches of the encloser, Sir Antonio was an active and
doughty champion. The agitation in favour of right against
might, which for thirty or forty years had been intermittently
maintained, took a concrete form in 1871, when the Trustees
of Lord Cowley enclosed a part of Wanstead Flats. On the