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BRODIE, GEORGE (_youngest son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, East
Lothian, farmer_). _b._ Chesterhill 1786; ed. at high sch. and
Univ. of Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1811;
historiographer royal of Scotland 1836 to death; author of _A
history of the British empire from the accession of Charles I to
the Restoration 4 vols._ 1822, _new ed. 3 vols._ 1866; edited
_Stair’s Institutes of the law of Scotland_. _d._ Percy house,
Randolph road, London 22 Jany. 1867.
BRODIE, JAMES CAMPBELL JOHN. _b._ 26 March 1843; ed. at Rugby and
St. Andrew’s; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 26 June 1873 to death.
_d._ Moss close, Manor road, Bournemouth 25 Feb. 1880.
BRODIE, JOHN. _b._ Edinburgh; served at hospital Scutari during
Russian war; went to New York 1869; city editor of _New York
Dispatch_; contributed largely to columns of the _Spirit of the
Times_. _d._ New York 29 Jany. 1873 aged 32.
BRODIE, PETER BELLINGER (_brother of Sir B. C. Brodie, 1 Baronet_).
_b._ Winterslow, Wilts. 20 Aug. 1778; pupil of Charles Butler; a
conveyancer; barrister I.T. 5 May 1815; drew charter of King’s
College London 1829; a real property comr. 1828, drew the part
relating to Fines and Recoveries of first report made May 1829,
the part relating to Probate of wills of second report made June
1830, and the part relating to Copyhold and Ancient Demesne made
April 1833; drew bill for abolishing Fines and Recoveries which
became law 1833; author of _A treatise on a tax on successions to
real as well as personal properly_ 1850. _d._ 49 Lincoln’s Inn
Fields, London 8 Sep. 1854. _Law Review xxi_, 348–54 (1855).
BRODIE, WILLIAM. _b._ 2 July 1799; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen;
lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 1824 to death. _d._ Brodie castle,
Forres, Morayshire 6 June 1873.
BRODIE, WILLIAM (_brother of Alexander Brodie 1830–67_). _b._ Banff
22 Jany. 1815; studied in the Trustees school of design, Edinburgh
1846–52; an associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1857, member 1859,
sec. 8 Nov. 1876; executed _portrait_ busts of most of the
celebrities of his day; executed 4 busts of the Queen, colossal
statue of Prince Consort at Perth, and one of the representative
groups in bronze, for Scottish memorial to Prince Consort in Edin.
_d._ Douglas lodge, Edin. 30 Oct. 1881. _Biograph ii_, 218 (1879).
BRODIE, WILLIAM BIRD. _b._ 26 Sep. 1780; a banker at Salisbury; M.P.
for Salisbury 14 Dec. 1832 to April 1843. _d._ Swanage, Dorset 24
Oct. 1863.
BRODRIBB, WILLIAM PERRIN. Pupil of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital London; L.S.A. 1822, M.R.C.S. 1823, L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859;
surgeon to Magdalen hospital, London; chairman of court of
examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1860–1, sec. to the court
1865 to death. _d._ 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 Jany. 1869 aged 68.
BROGDEN, REV. JAMES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A.
1833; R. of Great Henny, Essex 1841–5; C. of St. Michaels, St.
Albans 1845–8; V. of Deddington, Oxon 1848 to death; author of
_Illustrations of the liturgy and ritual of the united church of
England and Ireland 3 vols._ 1842; _Catholic safeguards against
the errors, novelties, and corruptions of the church of Rome 3
vols._ 1851. _d._ Deddington 11 Feb. 1864 aged 58.
BROKE, SIR ARTHUR BROOKE DE CAPELL, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir
Richard Brooke-Supple, 1 baronet 1758–1829_). _b._ Bolton st.
Piccadilly, London 22 Oct. 1791; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox., B.A.
1813, M.A. 1816; captain 17 Dragoons 26 Feb. 1818 placed on h.p.
same date; changed his name from Brooke to Broke; F.R.S. 29 May
1823; founded the Raleigh Club, (forerunner of Royal Geographical
Society), first regular meeting took place at the Thatched house 7
Feb. 1827, in 1854 the name of Raleigh was dropped and it became
Geographical club; succeeded 27 Nov. 1829; sheriff of
Northamptonshire 1843; author of _Travels through Sweden, Norway
and Finmark to the North Cape_ 1823; _A winter in Lapland and
Sweden_ 1827; _Sketches in Spain and Morocco 2 vols._ 1831. _d._
Oakley hall near Kettering 6 Dec. 1858. _C. Markham’s Fifty years
work of the Royal Geographical Society_ (1881) 15–18.
BROKE, CHARLES ACTON. _b._ 30 June 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836,
captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; quartered in island of Zante; well
known to all H.M.’s ships, merchantships and yachts as “Signal
Broke” as he challenged all vessels passing Zante from the signal
posts and extracted news from them; supported 40 or 50 starving
families in Zante during winters of 1852–54. _d._ Ayr 7 Sep. 1855.
BROKE, HORATIO GEORGE. _b._ 4 June 1790; captain 58 Foot 18 March
1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; permanent assistant
quartermaster general 4 July 1823; deputy quartermaster general
Nova Scotia 20 July 1830 to 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to the
Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; colonel 88 Foot 24 Dec. 1858
to death; L.G. 15 June 1860. _d._ Gloucester place, Portman sq.
London 30 Aug. 1860.
BROKE, SIR PHILIP VERE, 2 Baronet. _b._ 15 Jany. 1804; entered navy
Dec. 1819; captain 12 Sep. 1835; succeeded 2 June 1841; sheriff of
Suffolk 1844. _d._ Broke hall near Ipswich 24 Feb. 1855.
BROKE, SIR WILLIAM DE CAPELL, 3 Baronet. _b._ Deal, Kent 12 June
1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1835;
barrister I.T. 25 May 1827; sheriff of Rutland 1852; succeeded 6
Dec. 1858. _d._ The Elms, Market Harborough 8 March 1886. _Law
Times lxxx_, 364 (1886).
BROMBY, REV. JOHN HEALEY. _b._ 1771; ed. at Hull gr. sch. and Sid.
Suss. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, fellow
of his coll.; V. of Trinity, Hull 1797–1866; V. of Cheswardine,
Salop 1821–67; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1849 to death;
author of various sermons, essays and lectures published in Hull.
_d._ Hull 25 March 1868, the oldest clergyman in Church of
England.
BROME, FREDERICK. Governor of military prison on Windmill hill,
Gibraltar 1846 to Dec. 1868, and of military prison at Weedon
Northampton 1869 which was abolished same year; well known as a
palæontologist. _d._ 4 March 1870. _Nature i_, 509 (1870).
BROMEHEAD, REV. WILLIAM CRAWFORD (_youngest son of Rev. A. C.
Bromehead of Newbold, Warws._) Educ. at Repton and Trin. coll.
Cam., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853, B.D. 1879, chaplain of his
college 1857–9; chaplain in Bengal 1859–79; one of founders of
Indian church aid association and the first hon. sec.; chaplain in
ord. at Kensington palace, London 8 July 1879 to death; author of
_A short account of the lives of the bishops of Calcutta_ 1876;
_Step by step or the devout communicant led through the Church to
the vision of God_ 1878. _d._ Kensington palace 6 May 1884 aged
59.
BROMFIELD, WILLIAM ARNOLD (_son of Rev. John Arnold Bromfield of
Boldre in the New Forest who d. 1801_). _b._ Boldre 1801; entered
Univ. of Glasgow 1821, M.D. 1823; travelled through Germany, Italy
and France 1826–30; went to West Indies 1844 and to North America
1846; embarked for the East, Sep. 1850; author of _List of plants
likely to be found wild in the Isle of Wight_ 1840;
_Botanico-topographical map of the Isle of Wight_ 1850; _Letters
from Egypt and Syria_ 1856. _d._ of malignant typhus fever at
Damascus 9 Oct. 1851. _Hooker’s Kew garden miscell. iii_, 373–82
(1851); _Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii_, 182–3 (1855); _W. A.
Bromfield’s Flora Vectensis_ 1856, _portrait_.
BROMHEAD, SIR EDMUND GONVILLE, 3 Baronet. _b._ Birch grove,
Ballinasloe 22 Jany. 1791; ensign 8 Foot 18 Jany. 1808; lieut. 54
Foot 23 March 1809; captain 19 Foot 21 Nov. 1822 to 13 May 1826
when placed on h.p. as major; served in Walcheren expedition, the
Peninsula and at Waterloo; led the forlorn hope at Cambray 24 June
1815; succeeded 14 March 1855. _d._ Thurlby hall near Lincoln 25
Oct 1870.
BROMHEAD, SIR EDWARD THOMAS FFRENCH, 2 Baronet (_eldest son of Sir
Gonville Bromhead, 1 baronet 1758–1822_). _b._ Dublin 26 March
1789; ed. at Gonville and Caius. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815;
barrister I.T. 28 May 1813; succeeded 11 May 1822; F.R.S. 13 March
1817, F.L.S. 1844. _d._ Thurlby hall 14 March 1855.
BROMLEY, SIR RICHARD MADOX (_2 son of Samuel Bromley, Surgeon R.N.
who d. 1835_). _b._ 11 June 1813; ed. at Lewisham gr. sch.;
entered Admiralty department of Civil service 1829; sec. to Comrs.
for auditing public accounts 6 June 1848 to Feb. 1854; accountant
general of the Navy Feb. 1854 to March 1863; comr. of Greenwich
hospital 28 March 1863 to death; C.B. 13 Sep. 1854, K.C.B. 6 Sep.
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