BRADEY, FREDERICK (1833-1911) was born at Greenwich. His father, Francis Bradey (1793-1864), was a grandson of a former chancellor of Ireland, served in the Royal Artillery, 1812-19, and was in business in Southwark for 20 years. He selected land under the New Zealand Company in London in 1839, brought his family to New Zealand in the Adelaide (1840) and took up land at Pauatahanui. Bradey was one of the survivors of the boat accident at Petone on 25 Aug 1840. He died on 29 Oct 1864. Frederick went to England with his father in 1841, but returned to New Zealand and remained here all his life except for two years on the Australian goldfields (1852-53). He took up a property of 2,000 acres at Pauatahanui in 1855 and greatly improved it in subsequent years. In 1872 he was a lieutenant in the rifle volunteers, of which he was in command when they were disbanded some years later. He was a justice of the peace (1882) and a vice-president of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral association, chairman of the Hutt county council (1898-99), and of the Wellington education board and a member of the Wellington harbour board (1896-1908), the benevolent trustees, the hospital and charitable aid board, the Technical College board, the Anglican diocesan synod and many other bodies. Bradey married (1855) Agnes, daughter of Richard Stuart. He died on 8 Aug 1911.

Career of F. Bradey (1906, p); Cycl. N.Z., i (p); Who's Who N.Z., 1908; N.Z. Times, 9 Aug 1911; N.Z. Spectator, 15 Jun 1853.

Reference: Volume 1, page 59

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