George Stewardson Brady

George Stewardson Brady (18 April 1832 – 25 December 1921) was a professor of natural history at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who did important volumes on Copepoda and Ostracoda, including those from the Challenger expedition.[1][2]

Family and upbringing

He was the eldest son of Henry Brady, Surgeon of Gateshead, and his wife Hannah Bowman of Derbyshire. He married Ellen Wright in 1859.

He and his younger brother Henry Bowman Brady were both educated at the Friends' School, Ackworth and at Bootham school, York, where they were schoolfellows of John Gilbert Baker, Joseph Rowntree the younger, the founder of the famous cocoa business, John Rowntree, his brother, and Henry Seebohm Rowntree, who became famous as an ethnologist.

Career

Brady went to the University of Durham College of Medicine. He was awarded LSA and MD (1876) by St Andrews. He practised medicine in Gateshead (1857–1906) and was Professor of Natural History, Armstrong College, Newcastle (1875–1906).

He wrote reports on the Ostracoda and Copepoda of the Challenger Expedition. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1882.[3]


Publications

References

  1. Hans G. Hanssen. "George Stewardson Brady". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Göteborgs Universitet.
  2. Stebbing, Thomas Roscoe Rede (1922). Obituary notice of George Stewardson Brady (with portrait), 1832-1921. Great Britian: Harrison and Sons, Ltd. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  3. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 18 December 2010.

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