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BRODIE, JAMES CAMPBELL, eldest son of Thomas Brodie, Writer to the Signet, and Annie Taap; b. 22 Feb 1801; adm. 30 Sep 1814; succeeded cousin to Lethen and Coulmony, Nairnshire 1829; DL Nairnshire; m. 20 Mar 1832 Mary Catherine, youngest dau. of Stewart Souter, Melrose, Banffshire; d. 2 Mar 1857.

BRODIE, JOHN CLERK, brother of James Campbell Brodie (qv); b. 20 May 1811; adm. 12 Jan 1819; KS 1825; apprenticed to James Thomas Gibson Craig, Writer to the Signet; Writer to the Signet, 17 Nov 1836; Crown Agent, Feb 1847 - Mar 1852, Jan 1853 - Mar 1858; Keeper of the Register of Sasines, 3 Feb 1858; Treasurer, 1870; Deputy Keeper of the Signet, 1882-7; CB [check]; LLD [check]; of Idvies, Forfarshire; DL, JP; m. 1st, 20 Mar 1832 Bethia Garden, eldest dau. of Stewart Souter, Melrose, Banffshire; m. 2nd, 16 Nov 1848 Penelope Marianne, third dau. of Rev. John Sneyd, Ashcombe, Staffs.; d. 27 May 1888.

Brodie, Kenneth, son of Thomas Gregor Brodie, M. D., M.R.C.S., F.R.S., of Hampstead, Middlesex, sometime Professor of Physiology, Toronto University, by Alice Sims; b. June 29, 1897; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left Easter 1915; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Dorsetshire Regt. June 2, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; served in France 1915-6, and India 1918-20, when he was attached to the Bedfordshire Regt.; was twice wounded Jan. 14 and July 1, 1916; a school master; manager successively of the Streatham Hill, Saville, Gaiety and Savoy Theatres; 2nd Lieut. R. A. S. C. April 20, 1941; Capt.; m. Rosalinde Mary, daughter of John Thomas Overton, of Reigate Heath, Surrey; d. July 19, 1956.

BRODIE, THOMAS, brother of James Campbell Brodie (qv); b. 23 May 1805; adm. 14 Sep 1819; Cadet, EICS Bengal, 1826; Ensign, unattached, 25 May 1827; 1st Bengal Native Infantry, 30 Jan 1828; Junior Assistant to Governor-Gen. ’s Agent on North-Eastern Frontier 16 May 1837; 10th Native Infantry, 24 Sep 1835; Lieut., 2nd European Regt., 8 Oct 1839; Brevet Capt., 25 May 1842; 5th Native Infantry, 12 Nov 1842; Brevet Maj., 20 Jun 1854; retd., 9 Aug 1854; Lieut. -Col., retired list, 11 May 1855; m. 20 Sep 1855 Janet, only dau. of William Haig, Bonnington, Midlothian; d. 27 Nov 1879.

BRODIE, WILLIAM, son of Capt. David Brodie RN, Ampthill, Beds., and his first wife; b. 1749; at school under Markham (R. F. Scott, ed., Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., iii, 174); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 8 Oct 1766; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 15 Dec 1767, called to bar 3 Feb 1774; Magistrate at Great Marlborough Street from 1802; m. 27 Apr 1775 Mary, dau. of Thomas Assheton Smith, Ashley, Cheshire; d. 29 Jan 1812.

BRODLEY, ABRAHAM; b.; adm.; KS; buried Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 5 Jul 1616 (Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers, 113).

BRODRICK, LAURENCE, only surviving son of Rev. Laurence Brodrick DD, Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, Chaplain to House of Commons and Prebendary of Westminster, and Anne Humphrys; bapt. 11 Oct 1715; adm.; in school list 1729; KS (aged 14) 1730; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1735, matr. 9 Jun 1735, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1735 - res 26 Mar 1746; BA 1739; MA 1742; adm. Middle Temple 26 Oct 1733; ordained; Rector of Callan, co. Kilkenny, 15 Jul 1745; Treasurer of Lismore, 16 Aug 1745-78; Vicar of Derragarth and Ballybeacon, 16 Aug 1745; Vicar of Tubrid; Rector of Stradbally, 1774; m. (settlement dated 21 Apr 1748) his cousin Jane, youngest dau. of Right Hon. St. John Brodrick PC (I) MP MP (I); d. Apr 1786.

BROGDON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553-4 (Chapter Muniments).

BROGRAVE, EDWARD, second son of Simeon Brograve, Gray’s Inn and Hammels, Braughing, Herts., barrister, and Dorothy, dau. of Thomas Leventhorpe, Albury, Herts.; b.; at school under Wilson (Al. Cant. ); previously at Aldenham Sch.; Sidney Sussex Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 May 1622, matr. 1622; adm. Gray’s Inn 10 Jun 1624; of Standon, Herts.; m. Alice, dau. of Robert Burges, Brisley, Norfolk; living 1652.

BROKE, NICHOLAS; b. ; adm. ; KS 12 Jun 1549 (Acts of Chapter), still at school Mich. 1553; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. Easter 1554.