Henry Brady

Background

He was the second son of Henry Brady, Surgeon of Gateshead, and his wife Hannah Bowman of Derbyshire.

Career

Brady became a fellow of the Linnean Society on 17 March 1859, but resigned in 1887. He was also a fellow of the Geological Society from 1864, of the Royal Society from 1874, serving on its council in 1888, and of the Zoological Society from 1888.

Achievements

• Henry and his older brother George Stewardson Brady were both educated at the Friends" School, Ackworth and at Bootham school, York, where they were schoolfellows of John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920) and of Joseph Rowntree, the founder of the famous cocoa business, John Rowntree, his brother, Henry Seebohm Rowntree, who became famous as an ethnologist.

Membership

Royal Society.