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In Memoriam: Sir Antonio Brady. 
He had but a small family; one son, the Rev. Nicholas 
Brady, M.A., now Rector of Wennington, Essex; and two 
daughters, Fanny Maria, wife of the Venerable William 
Emery, B.D., Archdeacon and Canon of Ely, and Elizabeth 
Kilner, unmarried. On his marriage in 1887 Sir Antonio 
came to reside at Maryland Point, Stratford, where he lived 
until his death. In 1870 he retired from the Admiralty, 
and received the honour of Knighthood in recognition of the 
arduous and unremitting labours he had undertaken in con¬ 
nection with the Civil Service, extending over forty years. 
His death took place with alarming suddenness while dressing 
in the morning, the immediate cause being angina pectoris, 
from which he had been suffering for some days. He was 
buried in the family vault in St. John’s Churchyard, Strat¬ 
ford, the funeral being attended by an immense congregation 
of friends and neighbours. 
Sir Antonio Brady took great interest in all the philan¬ 
thropic and intellectual movements of his time. On his 
retirement from official life, he devoted himself heartily to 
aiding by every means within his power the social, educa¬ 
tional, and religious advancement of his neighbours; and 
his name will long be remembered in connection with the 
Victoria Docks Mission, the Free and Open Church Associa¬ 
tion, and the various benefit societies in Essex and elsewhere. 
He took great interest in sanitary reform, and at the time of 
the cholera epidemic he was most indefatigable in his efforts 
to relieve the sufferings and distress then rampant. In the 
cause of technical education he was most zealous, and it was 
mainly through his instrumentality that the East London 
Museum at Bethnal Green was inaugurated for the promotion 
of Technical Art and Science, a work in which he was greatly 
assisted by Dr. Miller and the Rev. Septimus Hansard. 
In the battle for the rescue of Epping Forest from the 
clutches of the encloser, Sir Antonio was an active and 
doughty champion. The agitation in favour of right against 
might, which for thirty or forty years had been intermittently 
maintained, took a concrete form in 1871, when the Trustees 
of Lord Cowley enclosed a part of Wan stead Flats. On the 
