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NICHOLAS BRADY (1659-1726)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 375 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICHOLAS See also:BRADY (1659-1726)  , See also:Anglican divine and poet, was See also:born at See also:Bandon, Co . See also:Cork, on the 28th of See also:October 1659 . He received his See also:education at See also:Westminster school, and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford; but he graduated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin . He took orders, and in 1688 was made a See also:prebendary of Cork . He was a zealous See also:promoter of the Revolution and suffered in consequence . When the troubles See also:broke out in See also:Ireland in 1690, See also:Brady, by his See also:influence, thrice prevented the burning of the See also:town of Bandon, after See also:James II. had given orders for its destruction; and the same See also:year he was employed by the See also:people of Bandon to See also:lay their grievances before the See also:English See also:parliament . He soon afterwards settled in See also:London, where he obtained various pre-ferments . At the See also:time of his See also:death, on the 20th of May 1726, he held the livings of Clapham and See also:Richmond . Brady's best-known See also:work is his metrical version of the See also:Psalms, in which See also:Nahum See also:Tate collaborated with him . It was licensed in 1696, and largely ousted the old version of T . Sternhold and J . See also:Hopkins .

He also translated See also:

Virgil's Aeneid, and wrote several smaller poems and dramas, as well as sermons .

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