George Stewardson Brady (1832–1921)

Zoologist and surgeon. Practised medicine in Sunderland, 1857–1892. Professor of natural history, Durham College of Science (College of Physical Sciences), Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1875–1906. One of the secretaries of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, 1863–9; president, 1875, 1892–3, 1906. Honorary curator of botany, museum of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1866–74; vice-president, 1894–1921. Published on marine and freshwater Crustacea. Author of the reports on the Ostracoda and Copepoda of the Challenger expedition. FRS 1882.

Sources

Medical directory 1890–2, Men and women of the time 1899, Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham 6 (1924–6): 1–7, Proceedings of the Royal Society Ser. B., 93 (1922): xx–xxiii, Record of the Royal Society of London

Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club 1863–4.