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degree at Oxford, it is clear that he must have learned something’ 
more. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, but never chose to 
practise, and, after his marriage, he settled at Belford, in 
Northumberland, where he enjoyed the great advantage, to a 
young and enthusiastic beginner in falconry, of hawking over 
the moor of his uncle, Mr. Selby, of Twizel, whose name with 
ornithologists is “‘a household word.” In those early days he 
procured, trained, and used very successfully many fine eyess 
Falcons and Tiercels; Peregrines from the northern coasts, 
notably one from St. Abb’s Head, Berwickshire ; and when, later 
on, he moved to the South of England, and resided at Bath and 
Ilfracombe, he for several years procured young Peregrines from 
Lundy Island, discovering, like every other faleoner who has been 
lucky enough to obtain birds from this well-known eyrie, that in 
a Lundy Hawk he had a falconer’s treasure. Falcons from Lundy 
were much valued in the Middle Ages, and their praises have been 
echoed by Charles Kingsley, in his ‘ Westward Ho.’ Well do 
they deserve it, although of late years the persistent robbery of 
two eyries, occupied for ages on the island, has resulted, it is 
feared, in the desertion of both. Indeed, hardly a nest of this 
noble Falcon on any part of our coast, save in a few inaccessible 
spots, escapes the greed of so-called collectors, much to the 
regret of naturalists and falconers. -After leaving Ilfracombe 
Mr. Brodrick settled at Chudleigh, but, the neighbourhood there 
being quite unsuited to the practice of his favourite sport, he had 
reluctantly to give it up, and solaced himself by keeping, as pets, 
most, if not all, of the Hawks and Falcons usually employed in 
modern falconry, except the Indian Luggers and Shaheens. 
Under his care examples of the Greenland, Iceland, and Nor- 
wegian Jerfalcons, Sakers and Lanners lived for years, a source of 
admiration to all who saw them. 
But it is as a writer on falconry, and an admirable draughtsman 
and painter of birds of prey, that Mr. Brodrick was and will be 
widely known. In 1855, in conjunction with his old friend Capt. 
F. H. Salvin (who from his lifelong devotion to falconry may 
well be called the father of the craft in England), he brought out 
the first edition of that much-admired work ‘ Falconry in the 
British Isles,’ the capital illustrations to which were all drawn by 
him from the life, the letterpress being the joint production of 
Capt. Salvin and himself, and, like the plates, a labour of love. 
