Mr Henry Bowman Brady (23 February 1835–10 January 1891)

British naturalist and pharmacist. Brady was born in Gateshead in the Northeast of England and was educated at Quaker schools. He trained as a pharmacist and was the originator of the British Pharmaceutical Congress and its treasurer (1864-70) and president (1872-73). Brady had a passion for botany and marine fauna, devoting his retirement to the study of Foraminifera, and published much on foraminiferans notably, in 1884, the seminal Report on the Foraminifera Dredged by HMS Challenger. He died at the Mansion Hotel in Bournemouth from bronchitis and emphysema. FRS.