Maziere Brady

Sir Maziere Brady, 1st Baronet, (20 July 1796 - 13 April 1871) was an Irish judge, notable for his exceptionally long, though not particularly impressive tenure as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Brady was born in Dublin, the second son of Francis Brady of Booterstown and his wife Charlotte Hodgson of Castledawson, County Londonderry. He was the brother of Sir Nicholas Brady, Lord Mayor of Dublin, and uncle of the eminent ecclesiastical historian William Maziere Brady. The Bradys were an old and distinguished Munster family who were particularly associated with the town of Bandon, County Cork. Probably the most celebrated of his ancestors was the poet Nicholas Brady (1659-1726), who collaborated with Nahum Tate, the Poet Laureate, on New Version of the Psalms of David. Other notable forebears include Hugh Brady, the first Protestant Bishop of Meath (died 1584), his father-in-law Robert Weston who like Maziere served as Lord Chancellor, and the judge and author Luke Gernon (died c.1672), who is now best remembered for his work A Discourse of Ireland (1620), which gives a detailed and (from the English colonial point of view) not unsympathetic picture of the state of Ireland in 1620.