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England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Merchant" title="Merchant">Merchant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antiquarian" title="Antiquarian">Antiquarian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Braikenridge Collection</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>George Weare Braikenridge</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London">FSA</a></span></span> (1775–1856) was an English <a href="/wiki/Antiquarian" title="Antiquarian">antiquarian</a>. He was born in the <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Colony of Virginia</a>, but lived for most of his life in <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, England, where he created a large collection of Bristolian historical and <a href="/wiki/Topography_as_the_study_of_place" class="mw-redirect" title="Topography as the study of place">topographical</a> material known as the Braikenridge Collection. It contains over 1400 drawings and <a href="/wiki/Watercolor_painting" title="Watercolor painting">watercolours</a> of Bristol landscapes and buildings. These are held in <a href="/wiki/Bristol_City_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery">Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery</a>, with related collections of manuscripts and other items held by <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Central_Library" title="Bristol Central Library">Bristol Central Library</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Archives" title="Bristol Archives">Bristol Archives</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Braikenridge Collection has become the most important historical record of Bristol's appearance in the early 19th century, and makes Bristol one of the best documented English cities in this respect.<sup id="cite_ref-Gomme11_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gomme11-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Foyle19_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foyle19-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Weare_Braikenridge&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His father George Braikenridge (1738–1827) was from <a href="/wiki/Brislington" title="Brislington">Brislington</a>, Bristol, but was a tobacco planter and merchant living in the <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia" title="Colony of Virginia">Colony of Virginia</a> at the time of Braikenridge's birth in 1775, having married Sarah "Sally" Jerdone, daughter of Virginian merchant and planter Francis Jerdone.<sup id="cite_ref-MHB01_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MHB01-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After returning to Bristol they became partners as George Braikenridge and Son, a <a href="/wiki/Drysalter" title="Drysalter">drysaltery</a> business.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> George Weare Braikenridge married Mary Bush in 1800.<sup id="cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBB13_14-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He subsequently became a merchant trading with the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a>. Retiring in 1820, he devoted himself to antiquarianism.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1823 he purchased Broomwell House, Brislington,<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to which he added a <a href="/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture">gothic</a> library, and started to fill the house with collected items of stonework, woodcarving and <a href="/wiki/Stained_glass" title="Stained glass">stained glass</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MBB37_41_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBB37_41-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Broomwell House no longer survives, some of those items, in particular the library's <a href="/wiki/Heraldry" title="Heraldry">heraldic</a> ceiling, do as he later transferred them to a villa in <a href="/wiki/Clevedon" title="Clevedon">Clevedon</a>, Somerset which he purchased in 1839. He was also the largest donor in the building of <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Clevedon" title="Christ Church, Clevedon">Christ Church, Clevedon</a>, which was consecrated that same year. It contains stained glass provided by Braikenridge, in its east window.<sup id="cite_ref-MBB50_53_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBB50_53-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He died in 1856 at Broomwell House.<sup id="cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBB13_14-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His collections relating to Bristol were <a href="/wiki/Bequest" class="mw-redirect" title="Bequest">bequeathed</a> to the city on the death of the last of his children, William Jerdone Braikenridge (1817–1907). A smaller collection relating to <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a> was bequeathed to the town of <a href="/wiki/Taunton" title="Taunton">Taunton</a>. Other objects are in museums around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most valuable items auctioned in a two-day sale at <a href="/wiki/Christie%27s" title="Christie's">Christie's</a> in 1908 were a 12th century <a href="/wiki/Ciborium_(container)" title="Ciborium (container)">ciborium</a>, which raised £6,000, now at <a href="/wiki/The_Morgan_Library_%26_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="The Morgan Library & Museum">The Morgan Library & Museum</a>, and a 16th century <a href="/wiki/Mazer_(drinking_vessel)" title="Mazer (drinking vessel)">mazer</a> bowl, which went for £2,300.<sup id="cite_ref-MBB22_23_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBB22_23-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A third item in the Braikenridge sale was a late medieval cradle, the so-called "<a href="/wiki/Cradle_of_Henry_V" title="Cradle of Henry V">cradle of Henry V</a>", which was purchased on behalf of King <a href="/wiki/Edward_VII_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VII of the United Kingdom">Edward VII</a> for the sum of 230 <a href="/wiki/Guinea_(British_coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Guinea (British coin)">guineas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Braikenridge played an important role as a patron of the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_School" title="Bristol School">Bristol School</a> of artists. Only three other consistent patrons of the school have been identified, namely the industrialists John Gibbons, Daniel Wade Acraman and Charles Hare.<sup id="cite_ref-Greenacre25_29_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greenacre25_29-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also important in encouraging <a href="/wiki/Francis_Danby" title="Francis Danby">Francis Danby</a>'s interest in landscape.<sup id="cite_ref-Adams38_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams38-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Collections">Collections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Weare_Braikenridge&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The main focus of Braikenridge's activity was his copy of <a href="/wiki/William_Barrett_(historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Barrett (historian)">William Barrett</a>'s <i>History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol</i>. It was common then for possessors of such histories to extra-illustrate or <a href="/wiki/James_Granger#Extra-Illustration" title="James Granger">"grangerise"</a> them, that is, to collect additional illustrations to be interleaved with the text. The items that Braikenridge collected for this purpose were eventually sufficient to fill 36 <a href="/wiki/Artist%27s_portfolio" title="Artist's portfolio">portfolios</a>. They included a wide variety of printed, engraved and written materials and assorted <a href="/wiki/Ephemera" title="Ephemera">ephemera</a>. Braikenridge's copy of Barrett's book together with this interleaved collection is in the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Central_Library" title="Bristol Central Library">Bristol Central Library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He had a further collection of over 1400 drawings and watercolours of Bristol landscapes and buildings, which he also organised in line with the chapters of Barrett's book. He commissioned many of these drawings from local artists; over two-thirds of them from <a href="/wiki/Hugh_O%27Neill_(artist)" title="Hugh O'Neill (artist)">Hugh O'Neill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Leeson_Scrase_Rowbotham" title="Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham">Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham</a> and Joseph Manning. Others were mainly from <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Jackson_(artist)" title="Samuel Jackson (artist)">Samuel Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Johnson_(English_artist)" title="James Johnson (English artist)">James Johnson</a>, Edward Cashin, George William Delamotte, John Eden and Marcus Holmes, although around 40 artists are represented in total. This collection is in the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_City_Museum_and_Art_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery">Bristol Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Greenacre186_187_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greenacre186_187-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the collection organised around Barrett's book, Braikenridge obtained more watercolours by Samuel Jackson, <a href="/wiki/Oil_painting" title="Oil painting">oil paintings</a> and watercolours by Francis Danby and drawings by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hieronymus_Grimm" title="Samuel Hieronymus Grimm">Samuel Hieronymus Grimm</a>. The paintings by Danby were atmospheric rather than topographical.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Adams38_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adams38-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Braikenridge had a similar but smaller collection for Somerset, created in the 1830s and based around his extra-illustration of <a href="/wiki/John_Collinson_(historian)" title="John Collinson (historian)">John Collinson</a>'s <i>History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset</i>. For this the drawings were mainly commissioned from the local artist <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Walter_Wheatley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Walter Wheatley (page does not exist)">William Walter Wheatley</a>. This collection is held by the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Somerset" title="Museum of Somerset">Museum of Somerset</a>, Taunton.<sup id="cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stoddard5_12-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Greenacre186_187_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greenacre186_187-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Braikenridge was also a collector of <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">fossils</a>. Among his specimens were the head of an <a href="/wiki/Ichthyosaur" class="mw-redirect" title="Ichthyosaur">ichthyosaur</a>, which he retrieved in 1813 from a quarry in <a href="/wiki/Keynsham" title="Keynsham">Keynsham</a>, Somerset, and an <a href="/wiki/Ammonite" class="mw-redirect" title="Ammonite">ammonite</a> fossil which he discovered at <a href="/wiki/Dundry" title="Dundry">Dundry</a>, Somerset and which has been named after him: <i><a href="/wiki/Normannites" title="Normannites">Normannites</a> braikenridgii</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBB13_14-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His collection was known to the geologist <a href="/wiki/William_Daniel_Conybeare" class="mw-redirect" title="William Daniel Conybeare">William Daniel Conybeare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Beeson33_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beeson33-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As well as being a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" title="Society of Antiquaries of London">Society of Antiquaries</a> he was also a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MBB13_14-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Weare_Braikenridge&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stoddard5_12_1-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFStoddard2001" class="citation book cs1">Stoddard, Sheena (2001). <i>Bristol before the Camera: The City in 1820–30</i>. Bristol: Redcliffe. pp. 5–12. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-900178-68-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-900178-68-0"><bdi>1-900178-68-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bristol+before+the+Camera%3A+The+City+in+1820%E2%80%9330&rft.place=Bristol&rft.pages=5-12&rft.pub=Redcliffe&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=1-900178-68-0&rft.aulast=Stoddard&rft.aufirst=Sheena&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Weare+Braikenridge" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gomme11-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Gomme11_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGommeJennerLittle1979" class="citation book cs1">Gomme, A.; Jenner, M.; Little, B. (1979). <i>Bristol: an architectural history</i>. London: Lund Humphries. p. 11. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85331-409-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-85331-409-8"><bdi>0-85331-409-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bristol%3A+an+architectural+history&rft.place=London&rft.pages=11&rft.pub=Lund+Humphries&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-85331-409-8&rft.aulast=Gomme&rft.aufirst=A.&rft.au=Jenner%2C+M.&rft.au=Little%2C+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Weare+Braikenridge" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Foyle19-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Foyle19_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFoyle2004" class="citation book cs1">Foyle, Andrew (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bristol0000foyl/page/19"><i>Pevsner Architectural Guide, Bristol</i></a>. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bristol0000foyl/page/19">19</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-10442-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-300-10442-1"><bdi>0-300-10442-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Pevsner+Architectural+Guide%2C+Bristol&rft.place=New+Haven&rft.pages=19&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-300-10442-1&rft.aulast=Foyle&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbristol0000foyl%2Fpage%2F19&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Weare+Braikenridge" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MHB01-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-MHB01_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBeals2009" class="citation journal cs1">Beals, M. 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(2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/content-images/JISSv3.1_OpenAccess.pdf#page=170">"The Sojourning Settler: Transatlantic Networks and Identities in the British-American Tobacco Trade, 1740–1841"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies</i>. <b>3</b> (1): 157–73. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.57132%2Fjiss.138">10.57132/jiss.138</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:128593753">128593753</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Irish+and+Scottish+Studies&rft.atitle=The+Sojourning+Settler%3A+Transatlantic+Networks+and+Identities+in+the+British-American+Tobacco+Trade%2C+1740%E2%80%931841&rft.volume=3&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=157-73&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.57132%2Fjiss.138&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A128593753%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Beals&rft.aufirst=M.+H.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abdn.ac.uk%2Friiss%2Fcontent-images%2FJISSv3.1_OpenAccess.pdf%23page%3D170&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Weare+Braikenridge" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MBB13_14-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MBB13_14_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStoddard1981" class="citation book cs1">Stoddard, Sheena (1981). <i>Mr Braikenridge's Brislington</i>. Bristol: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. pp. 13–14. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-900199-13-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-900199-13-X"><bdi>0-900199-13-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mr+Braikenridge%27s+Brislington&rft.place=Bristol&rft.pages=13-14&rft.pub=City+of+Bristol+Museum+and+Art+Gallery&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=0-900199-13-X&rft.aulast=Stoddard&rft.aufirst=Sheena&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Weare+Braikenridge" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MBB37_41-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-MBB37_41_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStoddard1981" class="citation book cs1">Stoddard, Sheena (1981). <i>Mr Braikenridge's Brislington</i>. Bristol: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. pp. 37–41. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-900199-13-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-900199-13-X"><bdi>0-900199-13-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mr+Braikenridge%27s+Brislington&rft.place=Bristol&rft.pages=37-41&rft.pub=City+of+Bristol+Museum+and+Art+Gallery&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=0-900199-13-X&rft.aulast=Stoddard&rft.aufirst=Sheena&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Weare+Braikenridge" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MBB50_53-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-MBB50_53_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStoddard1981" class="citation book cs1">Stoddard, Sheena (1981). <i>Mr Braikenridge's Brislington</i>. 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