Life
1659-1726; b. Bandon, Co. Cork, 28 Oct. 1659; son of his namesake, a major in the King’s army during the 1641 Rebellion; sent to Westminster Coll. [aetat. 12]; studied at Oxford for four years and returned to Dublin, where his father resided; grad. BA (TCD); appt. prebend of cath. of St. Barry, Cork [viz, St. Finbarr]; moved to England, 1690; the degree of D.D. was conveyed to him there by Dr. Pratt at this period; achieved renown preaching as minister of St. Catherine Cree church and lecturer of St. Michael’s Wood-street; afterwards held a living at Richmond, Surrey, and later others at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire, and Clapham, Surrey; also ran a school and served as chaplain to Duke of Ormonde’s horse-guards and those of William and Mary; chiefly remembered for a translation of Psalms issued with Nahum Tate [q.v.], 1696; he trans the Aeneid and wrote a tragedy, The Rape, or the Innocent Imposter (1692); published sermons in 1704, 1706, and 1713, and three other vols. published by his son, a rector at Tooting, Surrey. RR CAB ODNB DIW ODQ OCIL PI
| Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies, Vol. I [of 2] (London & Dublin 1819), pp.198-99. |
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D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary (Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912) lists New Version of the Psalms of David, in conj. with Nahum Tate, London 1695, 8vo.; The Aeneids of Virgil, in English verse, 4 vols. London 1716; The Rape, a trag. in five acts and in verse, 1692. b. Bandon, 1659; valuable living in London. d. 1726. See also Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica, Irish Worthies (1821), vol. I, p.198f.
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations selects passages from Tate and Brady (under Nahum Tate), Dido and Aeneas, play by Tate, with song[s] by Brady; New Version of the Psalms (1696), and Supplement (1700), which belongs in fact to Tate alone.
Notes
The Rape (1692); dram. pers., Gunderic, Genselaric, Briomer, Albimer, Rodvic, Almeric, Agilmond, Valda[?u]ra, Almazontha, Rhadegonda, Arione, Merinda. (See Wells & Bergquist, English Drama [Microcards]; also also Peter Kavanagh, Irish Theatre (1946).
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