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Mr. W. J. Broderip - from a family painting, 1856. British writer, lawyer and naturalist, '...recently retired from the magistracy of the Westminster Police Court...Mr. Broderip was called to the bar in 1817...In 1822 he was appointed a police magistrate of the metropolis...Mr. Broderip is the author of the greater part of the zoology and of some of the biography in the "Penny Cyclopaedia", of "Zoological Recreations"; "Leaves from the Notebook of a Naturalist", and of many literary essays and scientific papers...His fine collection of shells was bought by the nation, and is now in the British Museum, to which institution he presented the celebrated Stonesfield fossil jaw...Mr. Broderip's benevolence is well known; his patronage of art has ever been liberal, and it can be said of him...that he never was known even to suggest a less price than that asked by the artist'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.