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 mi ion and East London museum; pres. of Inventors’ Institute; a judge in Verderer’s Court for forest of Epping; made a collection of fo il Mammal i a 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 Mammal i a from Ilford, E ex 1874. d. Maryland point, Forest lane, Str at ford E ex 12 Dec. 1881. Geological Mag. 1882, p. 93.