Background
He was the son of John Brailsford, a pewterer.
He was the son of John Brailsford, a pewterer.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors" School and Saint John"s College, Cambridge (Bachelor 1712, Master of Arts 1717), and, after acting as curate at Blaston in Leicestershire, became rector of Kirkby in Nottinghamshire.
He wrote Derby Silk-Mill, attempted in Miltonick Verse, Nottingham, 1739, fol.