Sir Antonio Brady (10 November 1811–12 December 1881)

British naturalist, social reformer and British Admiralty official. Brady was born in Deptford and educated in Lewisham before joining the civil service at Deptford as a junior clerk in 1828. By 1869, after various promotions, he became first superintendent of the admiralty new contract department. After his retirement Sir Antonio devoted himself to social, educational, and religious reform. On 18 May 1837 Brady married Maria, eldest daughter of George Kilner of Ipswich. Brady was a member or fellow of the Ray, Paleontological, Microscopical, Palaeontographical, Meteorological, and Geological societies. He was an original life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and was especially active on its geological section. His collection of fossilised skeletal Pleistocene mammalian remains, which he found in the brickearths of the Thames valley, is now in the Natural History Museum, London. Brady died suddenly at home in Essex aged 70, and was survived by his wife and children.