Frederic Boase - Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

BRODIE, Alexander ( son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, Roxburghshire ). Author of A history of the Roman government 1810; The prophetess, a tale of the last century in Italy 3 vols. [ anon. ] 1826. d. The Whim house, Peebleshire 13 March 1858.

BRODIE, Alexander ( younger son of John Brodie of Aberdeen, mariner ). b. Aberdeen 1830; apprenticed in foundry of Messrs. Blaikie Brothers of Aberdeen brass-finishers; sculptor at Aberdeen about 1858 to death; very successful in bust-portraiture and medallions; his best known statues are those of Duke of Richmond at Huntly and Queen Victoria at Aberdeen. d. Aberdeen 30 May 1867.

BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins, 1 Baronet ( 3 son of Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie 1742–1804, R. of Winterslow, Wilts. ) b. Winterslow 9 June 1783; studied at St. George’s hospital London 1803–5, assistant surgeon 1808 and surgeon 1822 to Jany. 1840; teacher of anatomy in Windmill st. school 1805–12 and lecturer on surgery 1808–29; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1810, Copley medallist 1811 and pres. 1858–61; professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at College of Surgeons 1819–23 and pres. 1844; surgeon to George iv, 11 Aug. 1828; serjeant surgeon to Wm. iv, 5 Sep. 1832; presented his pathological museum to St. George’s hospital 1829; created baronet 30 Aug. 1834; author of Pathological and surgical observations on diseases of the joints 1818, 3 ed. 1834; Lectures on the diseases of the urinary organs 1832, 4 ed. 1849 and many other books. d. Broome park, Surrey 21 Oct. 1862. Autobiography of the late Sir B. C. Brodie 1865; Proc. of royal society xii , 42–56 (1863); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery ii , (1840), portrait ; Taylor’s National portrait gallery i , 41 (1846), portrait .

BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins, 2 Baronet ( eld. son of the preceding ). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1817; ed. at Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, hon. D.C.L. 1872; studied chemistry at Giessen 1845; propounded doctrine of polarity of chemical elements 1847; sec. of Chemical Soc. of London 1850–4, pres. 1859–61; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, Royal medallist 1850; lecturer at Royal Institution 1851; Aldrichian prof. of chemistry at Ox. 1855–66 when professorship was suppressed, and Waynflete prof. of chemistry 1865–72; discovered graphitic acid. d. Torquay 24 Nov. 1880. Journal of Chemical Soc. xxxix , 182–5 (1881).

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.