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Authorised form of nameBrady; Henry Bowman (1835 - 1891); naturalist and pharmacist
Dates1835 - 1891
NationalityBritish
Place of birthGateshead, England
Date of birth23 February 1835
Place of deathBournemouth
Date of death03 or 10 January 1891
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
The Jesmond old cemetery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
OccupationChemist
Research fieldNatural history
ActivityEducation:
Friend's School, Ackworth
Career:
Apprentice to a pharmaceutical chemist in Leeds (1850); set up own business as a pharmacist in Newcastle (1855); retired (1876); left his books and papers relating to Protozoa to the Royal Society, with £300 to buy works on related subjects
Memberships:
FLS (1859); FGS (1864); FZS (1888)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1874
RelationshipsSon of Henry Brady, Surgeon of Gateshead, and his wife Hannah Bowman of Derbyshire; younger brother of George Stewardson Brady (FRS 1882)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1891-1892 vol 50 pp x-xii signed by W C R-A
References:
C S S, 'The Society's Library' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 21-27
Notes:
Boase gives death date as 10 January 1891. W C Williamson has signed the election certificate twice
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/57365478
CodeNA6573
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1874/04Brady, Henry Bowman: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/10/705Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to James Chumley, Challenger Office, Edinburgh23 January 1895
NLB/5/29Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor George Stewardson Brady, Fellow of the Royal Society, 2 Mowbray Villas, Sunderland21 February 1891
RR/6/91Referee's report by Peter Martin Duncan, on a paper 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady20 July 1869
RR/6/47Letter from Henry Benjamin Wheatley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady7 August 1869
RR/10/242Referee's report by Henry Bowman Brady, on a paper 'On some variations of Cardium edule apparently correlated to the conditions of life' by William Bateson3 June 1889
MC/10/118Letter from Henry B [Bowman] Brady, Mosley Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society6 June 1874
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MS/787Papers on natural history of Henry Bowman Bradyc1835-1891
MC/12/327Letter from Henry B [Bowman] Brady, Tavistock Hotel, Covent Garden, to Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society25 April 1883
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
RR/6/46Committee report, on a paper 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Bradynd [1869]
RR/6/45Referee's report by William Kitchen Parker, on a paper 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady13 July 1869
PP/3/16Paper, 'Note on syringammina, a new type of arenaceous rhizopoda' by Henry B [Bowman] Brady1882
RR/6/209Letter from Henry Benjamin Wheatley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding three papers 'On Holtenia, a genus of vitreous sponges' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson, 'The physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood-vessels of the frog' by Frederic B Nunneley and 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady1 September 1869
MC/15/200Letter from [Thomas] Garrick Watson, 83 Osborne Road, [Newcastle upon Tyne], to the Treasurer of the Royal Society2 July 1891
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