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BRADSTREET. 403 BRADY. though in scvoral instances, notably with regard to the witchiiaft delusion of 1602, he was op- posed to the majority of the colonists. His wife was Anne Bradstieet, the poet, daughter of Thomas Dudley (q.v. ). BBADWARDINE, brad'wer-din, Babox. A pedantic but ^'cnial old soldier, of ancient lin- eage, in Scott's novel Warerley. He is the mas- ter of TuUy Veolan, and his daughter, called the 'Rose of Tally Veolan.' saves Waverley's life, and, later, marries him. BRADWARDINE, or BREDWARDINE, Thomas, was born at Hartfiekl, in Sussex. Eng- land, near the close of the Thirteenth Century, and died at Lambeth, 1349. He early acquired the reputation of being a profound scholar, skill- ful mathematician, and able divine, which won him the title, "Profound Doctor.' He was chan- cellor of the university, later became confessor to Edward III., and finally was consecrated Arch- bishop of Canterbury, but died of plague shortly after his consecration. Part of Bradwardine's mathematical work was on the subject of star- polygons, a subject which fascinated the great Kepler, Kegiomontanus. and Cardan, and which has attracted much attention in recent times. The trigonometry of the Arabs was known to him, and his philosophic works contain discus- sions of the infinite and the infinitesimal, which have played so important a part in modern math- ematics. His chief works are: De Causa Dei (1618); De Geometria f>pecttlaliva (1495, 1512, 1530); De Proportioiiihiis (Paris, 1495); De Quadratura Circuli (1495), and De Arithmetica Practica (1.502). BRATJY, A. See Bakdoux, -Ag^xob. BRADY, Cybus Towxsexd (1861—). -An American clergyman and author: born in Alle- gheny, Pa. He graduated in 1883 at the United States Xaval Academy, and after work in con- nection with Western railways was in 1890 or- dained priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was rector of churches in ilissouri and Colo- rado, and subsequently was appointed Archdea- con of Kansas. From 1895 to 1899 he was Arch- deacon of Pennsylvania, and in the latter year became rector of Saint Paul's Church. Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa. During the Spanish-American War he was chaplain of the First Pennsylvania Volunteers. He has pul)lished lives of Stephen Decatur (1900) and Commodore Paul Jones (1900); Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West (1900), his best work, and several volumes of fiction. BRADY, Geobge .Stewabdson (1832 — ). An English zoiilogist and paleontologist. He was bom at Gateshead-on-Tyne and was educated at the University of Durham. He practiced medi- cine and surgery in Sunderland from 1857 to 1872, and became president of the Sunderland Subscription Library and Literary Society, and of the Sunderland Micro.scopical Society. His principal published works are: "A .Monograph of the Recent British Ostracoda," in Transactions of the Linna:an Hociety (1868) ; A Monograph of the Post-Tertiary Kntomostracn of Scotland (1874); A Monograph of the Free and Semi- Parasitic Copepoda of the British Islands (1877- BRADY, He.nbv Bowma:* (1835-90). An F.nglish paleontologist, born at Gateshead. He was a successful manufacturing pharmacist and had much influence in placing that profession on a sound scientific basis. For several years he was member of the council of the Pharmaceu- tical Society. The associations of his youth had developed in him a desire for research in natural history, and his life near the coast of the Xorth Sea enabled him to gratify his tastes in that direction. He spent much time in dredging marine animals, and became particularly inter- ested in a group of minute organisms, the fora- minifera, concerning which he eventually was recognized as the chief English authority. He studied also the fossil members of this group of animals. Tlie oceanic deposits collected by the Challenger expedition were turned over to him for examination, and the contained foraminifera furnished the material for an extensive mono- graph, perhaps the most important ever pub- lished on that class of animals. He published several memoirs on the foraminifera of the Meso- zoic, Cenozoic, and recent deposits of Great Britain, and contributed freely to the scientific journals. He was elected a fellow of the Geo- logical Society of London in 1864, of the Royal Society in 1874, and was also a, fellow of the Linn;ean and the Zoological societies. His more important works are: Report on the Forami- nifera Dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, During the Years 1S73-7G; Scientific Results of the Chal- lenger Voyage, Vol. IX. (1888), a magnificent work of over 800 quarto pages, with an atlas of 115 plates; "A Monograph of Carboniferous and Permian Foraminifera," Transactions Paleonto- graphical Society, Vol. XXX. (1876). BRADY, James Topham (1815-69). An American lawyer; born in New York City. He was educated by his father, who was also a law- yer and a jtidge. The son became eminent for eloquence and met with remarkable success as a lawyer, especially in criminal cases. In 1843 he was appointed district attorney, and in 1845 cor- poration attorney. In IStiO he was the candidate of the pro-slavery Democrats for Governor. He contributed largely to newspapers and maga- zines, but left no collected works. BRADY, JoH^' (1840 — ). An Irish-American prelate; horn in County Cavan, Ireland. He studied at All Hallows College, was ordained priest in 1864, and from 1864 to 1868 was assist- ant pastor at Newburyport, JIass. In 1868 he became pastor at Amesbury, Mass. He greatly aided Archbishop Williams, of Bo.ston, in the labors of that episcopate, and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston in 1891. In the same year he was consecrated titular Bishop of Ala- bama. BRADY, William Maziebe (1825—). An Englisli Itoman Catholic divine and author; born in Dublin, Ireland, of a distinguished family. He gra<luatcd from Trinity College and became a leader in the movement to disestablish the State Church of Ireland, of which he was a clergyman. His attacks on the establishment led to the loss of many of liis preferments, and in 1873 he be- came a Roman Catholic. His publications in- clude: The Episcopal Succession in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1.',00-1S75 (1876-77); An- nals of the Catholic Hierarchy in England and Scotland (1883) ; and Anglo-Roman Papers (1890).