George Stewardson Brady

George Stewardson Brady (born April 18, 1832 in Gateshead , † December 25, 1921 in Sheffield ) was a British zoologist and micropalaeontologist .

Life

Brady studied medicine at the University of Durham with the degree of LSA (License of the Society of Apothecaries) and MRCS (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons) in 1853 and a later MD degree in 1876.

He dealt in particular with ostracods and copepods and edited the corresponding material of the Challenger expedition .

The Brady Medal of The Micropalaeontological Society was named in his honor in honor of that of his brother Henry Bowman Brady (also a pioneer of micropalaeontology in Great Britain) . From 1875 he practiced as a doctor in his Sunderland and was from 1875 to 1906 professor of natural history at Armstrong College and Hancock Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (then with an honorary professorship).

In 1882 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He received an honorary LLD from the University of St Andrews and an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.) From the University of Durham (1893). A number of marine crustaceans are named after him. He was a corresponding member of the Linne Society in Bordeaux and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and Vice President of the North of England Microscopical Society.

Fonts

A Monograph of the Free and Semi-parasitic Copepoda of the British Isles, 3 volumes, Ray Society 1880

literature

Peter S. Davis, David J. Horne: George Stewardson Brady (1832-1921) and his collections at the Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Journal of Micropalaeontology 4, 1985, 141-152

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Biographies and biographies from obituary in the British Medical Journal 1922

personal data
SURNAME	Brady, George Stewardson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British paleontologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gateshead
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1921
Place of death	Sheffield

[1] Biographies and biographies from obituary in the British Medical Journal 1922