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Henry Bowman Brady
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Henry Bowman Brady

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Botanist
A.K.A.
Brady
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Gateshead, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Age
55 years
Education
Ackworth School
Ackworth, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Awards
honorary doctor of the University of Aberdeen
 
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Biography

Henry Bowman Brady (23 February 1835 Gateshead, England – 10 January 1891 Bournemouth) was a British micropalaeontologist.

Life

He was the second son of Henry Brady, Surgeon of Gateshead, and his wife Hannah Bowman of Derbyshire.

Henry and his older brother George Stewardson Brady were both educated at the Friends' School, Ackworth and at Bootham school, York, where they were schoolfellows of John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920) and of Joseph Rowntree, the founder of the famous cocoa business, John Rowntree, his brother, Henry Seebohm Rowntree, who became famous as an ethnologist.

Brady became a fellow of the Linnean Society on 17 March 1859, but resigned in 1887 ; he was also a fellow of the Geological Society from 1864, of the Royal Society from 1874, serving on its council in 1888, and of the Zoological Society from 1888.

Works

Test of the foraminifer Globigerina bulloides with defensive spines, drawn by paleontologist Henry Bowman Brady in 1884.

Henry Brady published much on foraminiferans, and several species were named after him [Valvulinerea bradyana (Fornasini, 1900), Trifarina bradyi Cushman, 1923, Rosalina bradyi Cushman, 1915, Robertinoides bradyi (Cushman & Parker, 1936), Neoeponides bradyi (Le Calvez, 1974), Fursenkoina bradyi (Cushman, 1922), Evolvocassidulina bradyi Norman, 1881, Ehrenbergina bradyi Cushman, 1922, Cassidulinoides bradyi (Norman, 1881), Parrina bradyi (Millett, 1898), Labrospira bradyi (Robertson, 1891), Karreriella bradyi (Cushman, 1911), Hemisphaerammina bradyi Loeblich & Tappan, 1957, Dorothia bradyana Cushman, 1936].

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