Horace Edward Seymour Bracey: The man behind the name

By Lithgow & District Family History Society
Updated March 25 2021 - 11:36am, first published March 24 2021 - 10:53am
THE MAN: Horace Edward Seymour Bracey. Photo: LITHGOW MERCURY
THE MAN: Horace Edward Seymour Bracey. Photo: LITHGOW MERCURY

Horace Bracey, born 3 Nov 1851 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, sailed to Australia on board a windjammer at the age of twenty-one. As a youth in England a reversal of the family fortunes dashed his hopes of becoming a doctor and following in the footsteps of his illustrious first cousin once removed, Sir James Paget, known best for his reports and studies of the progressive bone disorder known as Paget's disease of the bone, or osteitis deformans.

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