Edward William Brabrook

Edward William Brabrook CB, FSA, FRSL, FRSNA
Born	1839
Died	1930
Residence	3 Parliament Street, SW. [1864] 8a Waterloo Place, SW [1866] 1 Elm Court, Temple [in A6][1869] 28 Abingdon Street, S.W. [1872]; and 177 High Street, Lewisham, S.E. [1883] 178 Bedford Hill, Balham SW [1894] 178 Bedford Hill, Balham SW; 28 Abingdon Street, S.W.[1899 vol. 29] Langham House, Wallington, Surrey [1915]
Occupation	legal civil service
Society Membership membership ASL, AI ordinary fellow - life compounder ASL Foundation Fellow left 1930 deceased elected_AI 1864 elected_ASL 1864.03.15 clubs Athenaeum Club Colquehoun Club societies Anthropological Society of Paris Society of Antiquaries Royal Society of Northern Antiquities Copenhagen Folklore Society London and Middlesex Archaeological Association Statistical Society Royal Society of Literature

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Office Notes

ASL Council 1867 Member
ASL Council 1868 Director
ASL Council 1869 Director [this is Bendyshe on list 1869.08.01]
ASL Council 1871 Member

AI Council 1872 Director
AI Council 1874 Director
AI Council 1875 Director
AI Council 1876 Director
AI Council 1877 Director
AI Council 1878 Director and Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1879 Director and Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1880 Director and Hon. Secretary
AI Council 1881 Member
AI Council 1882 Member
AI Council 1883 Member
AI Council 1884 Member
AI Council 1885 Member
AI Council 1886 Member
AI Council 1887 Member
AI Council 1888 Member
AI Council 1889 Member
AI Council 1890 Vice President
AI Council 1891 Vice President
AI Council 1892 Vice President
AI Council 1893 Member
AI Council 1894 Member
AI Council 1895 President
AI Council 1896 President
AI Council 1897 President
AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)

House Notes

Corr. Member of the Anthropological Society of Paris; FSA FRSNA Copenhagen
barrister at law

President of the Colquehoun Club. Colquhoun Club. It was part of the Royal Society of Literature. The only place I have found references to it is in The Times where its meetings, always dinners in restaurants, are listed under the court circular and on which there are sometimes brief reports. I have no idea when it disappeared – I have not followed it up – but I see that the RSL on its website under history makes no mention of it. I get the impression that it was the convivial part of the RSL! [Peter Riviere]

same address [3 Parliament Street] as Charles Stuart Bailey

death noted in the Report of the Council for 1930

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Edward William Brabrook (1839–1930) C.B. F.S.A. was a civil servant and author, and an anthropologist with a special interest in folklore.[1][2] He was a member of the Folklore Society and a fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London.
A lawyer by training, he became the senior registrar of friendly societies and wrote extensively on the law relating to working-class self-help institutions, promoting legal guides for industrial and provident (co-operative) societies, trade unions, and savings banks.
He died at Wallington and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1889
1909 silver medal from Statistical Society

Publications

External Publications

His works included a proposal for an "Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom" put to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, coordinating activities of the Folklore Society, Anthropological Institute and Society of Antiquaries

“Building Societies” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911. (United Kingdom)
“Friendly Societies” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

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Other Material

UCL, U. of Bristol, Bishopsgate Institute [letters]