Edward William Brayley
1801–70
Writer and lecturer on science. Editorial assistant to the Philosophical Magazine, 1823–44. Joint librarian of the London Institution, 1834–65; principal librarian and professor of physical geography, 1865–70. Offered popular scientific lectures in many London institutions. FRS 1854.
Sources
London, England, Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, 1538–1812 (Ancestry.com, accessed 15 January 2019)
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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