35 Facts About Thomas Braddell

Thomas Braddell was born in Rahingrany, County Wicklow and called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1859.

Thomas Braddell took the role of Attorney-General of Singapore from 1 April 1867 to 1 January 1883.

At the age of nearly seventeen he went to Demerara with his brother, George William Thomas Braddell, to learn sugar planting.

The brother died there in 1840, and in 1844 Thomas Braddell arrived at Penang from Demerara to manage the sugar estate called Otaheite, in the Ayer Hitam Valley, which belonged to Messrs.

On 1 January 1849 Thomas Braddell joined the service of the East India Company as deputy superintendent of police at Penang.

Thomas Braddell earned this promotion for an act which made him famous at the time, and gained him the quickest promotion in Government service then known.

Thomas Braddell, who was at that time stationed in Malacca, without the slightest assistance and without calling on the military, went out with all the police he could get together, attacked the Chinese, killed and wounded several of them, took the stockade, and summarily ended the riots, for which act he was publicly thanked by the Governor.

Thomas Braddell was not satisfied with his prospects in the company as an uncovenanted servant, and commenced to study for the Bar, a natural bent, seeing that from 1801 relatives of his had been at the Irish Bar.

In February 1858, Thomas Braddell had written a pamphlet entitled " Singapore and the Straits Settlements Described," because of the agitation then going on about the Transfer.

Thomas Braddell wanted the Government of the Straits to be quite distinct from that of India, and that the sources from which the officials were derived should be distinct.

Thomas Braddell was a most indefatigable worker, and used to sit up very late at night at his work.

Thomas Braddell was certainly one of the busiest men of his day, his court practice was very large and lucrative, his duties as Attorney-General were very heavy, but he always found time for public work.

When Sir Andrew Clarke was sent out with orders to solve the problem of the Native States, he relied very strongly on Thomas Braddell, and appointed him Colonial Secretary and Secretary for Affairs relating to the Native States in 1875.

Thomas Braddell was exceedingly popular with all the Malay chiefs and principal men, who used to come from all parts to consult him.

Thomas Braddell speaks Malay better than a Malay, and knows their customs.

Thomas Braddell was, in his comparatively younger days, when he first came to Singapore, one of the most popular men of the place.

Thomas Braddell was a capital billiard player, and was to be seen in the theatre when any travelling company gave performances there, which were poor enough; but he used to say that it passed an evening occasionally, however bad the players were, and made a little diversion from work.

Thomas Braddell had a very pleasant face and manner, and it was said of him after the Transfer that he was the only official who could carry off the civil service uniform which came into use then among some, but not all, the officials, for he had a fine figure, and was over six feet in height.

Towards the end of 1882, Braddell had a nasty carriage accident, and as a consequence had to retire; he was entertained before his departure at a farewell dinner given by the Bar and the Civil Service, at which the chief justice, Sir Thomas Sidgreaves, took the chair, and the governor was present as a guest.

In proposing the toast of the evening, the chief justice said that the news of Thomas Braddell's retirement had been received with incredulity:.

Thomas Braddell died in London on 19 September 1891, at the age of sixty-eight.

Thomas Braddell played a large part in theatricals and music while she was in Singapore.

Sir Thomas Braddell, like his father, was an enthusiastic Freemason, and in his time was Master of Lodge St George and first Master of Read Lodge, Kuala Lumpur, holding the two offices by special dispensation in the same year; he was District Grand Senior Warden.

Sir Thomas Braddell was a very good actor in his younger days, and was particularly successful as General Baltic in Turned up, by Mark Melford, and as Digby Grant in Two Roses, by James Albery.

Thomas Braddell stage-managed Iolanthe, which started an era of musical plays in October 1889, and the Crimson Scarf, a comic opera by H B Farnie and J E Legouix, in 1888; nor was he above giving an evening a week to coach the elder pupils of Raffles Girls' School in their Shakespeare.

Sir Thomas de Multon Lee Braddell was born in Province Wellesley on 25 November 1856, and after leaving Oxford was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple on 25 June 1879.

Thomas Braddell was admitted to the local Bar on 5 January 1880.

Thomas Braddell died on 31 January 1927 after an influenza attack.

Thomas Braddell was the finest criminal lawyer and cross-examiner who has practised at the local Bar.

Thomas Braddell shared the family taste for theatricals, and appeared in comic parts on many occasions, and could sing a good comic song.

Thomas Braddell he founded with his brother Braddell Brothers is still operating today.

Thomas Braddell was a very fine billiard and lawn-tennis player, gaining the championship many times at both games.

Thomas Braddell won his tennis half-blue at Oxford, and was an amateur lawn tennis plater.

Thomas Braddell won the Oxford University tournament in 1881, the same year he was a losing finalist at the South of England Championships against Edgar Lubbock at Eastbourne.

Thomas Braddell married Minnie, daughter of the Rev Thomas Smith, vicar of Brailes, near Banbury.