Brady, NICHOLAS

Brady, NICHOLAS, with Nahum Tate, versifier of the Psalms, was born at Bandon, County Cork, in 1659. He was educated at Westminster, Christ-Church (Oxford), and Dublin, and held from 1696 to his death in 1726 the living of Richmond, Surrey, along with the rectories of Stratford-on-Avon and Clapham in succession. He also kept a school at Richmond, honoured by the approval of Richard Steele. Tate and Brady's metrical version of the Psalms was authorised in 1696, but with the strong opposition of many among the Tory clergy. His tragedy, The Rape, or the Innocent Imposters, his blank verse Æneid, and his sermons have long since sunk into the oblivion they deserved.