BRAID WOOD

James ( son of Mr. Braid wood of Edinburgh, builder ). b. Edinburgh 1800; ed. at the High sch.; engaged in his father’s busine ; 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. Braid wood’s Fire prevention with memoir of the author (1866), portrait ; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi , 571–8 (1862).