George Stewardson Brady (18 April 1832 – 25 December 1921) was a professor of
natural history at the
Hancock Museum
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in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne who did important volumes on
Copepoda and
Ostracod
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a, including those from the
''Challenger'' expedition.
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
Henry Bowman Brady (23 February 1835 Gateshead, England – 10 January 1891 Bournemouth) was a British micropalaeontologist.
Life
He was the second son of Henry Brady, Surgeon of Gateshead, and his wife Hannah Bowman of Derbyshire.
Henry an ...
were both educated at the
Friends' School, Ackworth and at
Bootham school, York, where they were schoolfellows of the botanist
John Gilbert Baker
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Biography
Baker was born in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert ...
, and the Rowntree brothers
Joseph
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,
John
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Henry
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, of the
famous cocoa business which bore their name.
Career
Brady went to the
University of Durham
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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
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in June 1882.
Publications
*the 3-volume "A Monograph of the Free and Semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Isles" for the Ray Society in 1880, but also publishing on the Challenger copepods and collections from different national expeditions; cooperator of Norman (q.v.);
* worked mainly on "entomostracans" and had many species named after him [Bradya Boeck, 1872, Bradyidius Giesbrecht, 1897, Bradycalanus A. Scott, 1909, Bradyetes Farran, 1905, Bradycinetus Sars, 1866, Bradycypris G.O. Sars, 1924, Bradypontius Giesbrecht, 1895, Bathycalanus bradyi (Wolfenden, 1905), Undinopsis bradyi G.O. Sars, 1884, Pareuchaeta bradyi (With, 1915), Scolecithrix bradyi Giesbrecht, 1888, Centropages bradyi Wheeler, 1899, Cervinia bradyi Brady, 1878 ex Norman MS, Peltobradya Médioni & Soyer, 1967, Neobradya T. Scott, 1892, Antarcticobradya Huys, 1987, Phyllopodopsyllus bradyi (T. Scott, 1892), Sarsicytheridea bradii (Norman, 1865), Bythocythere bradyi G.O. Sars, 1926, Sclerochilus bradyi Rudjakov, 1962, Paradoxostoma bradyi G.O. Sars, 1928, Diastylis bradyi Norman, 1879, Ilyocypris bradyi G.O. Sars, 1890, Coronida bradyi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1869), Bradyidius bradyi (G.O. Sars, 1884), Cycloleberis bradyi ].
* "The voyage of HMS Challenger", report on the ostracoda dredged by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876
References
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Voyage of HMS Challenger
1832 births
1921 deaths
People from Gateshead
British carcinologists
Fellows of the Royal Society
19th-century British zoologists
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