William Brady
William Brady
Ecclesiastical writer, born Dublin , Ireland , (1825 ; died Rome, Italy , 1894 . He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin , and became an Anglican clergyman. While Vicar of Clonfert, County Cork, 1863 , he published “The Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Roes”. He wrote also in favor of the disestablishment of the Protestant Church in Ireland , and on the passage of the act went to Rome for research in church history. He became a Catholic there in 1873 , and served afterwards as correspondent for the London “Tablet.” Among his published works are “Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland, and Ireland , A.D. 1400 to 1875,” “Annals of the Catholic Hierarchy in England and Scotland, A.D. 1585-1876, with a Dissertation on Anglican Orders,” and “Anglo-Roman Papers.”