Braddell Road

By Cornelius-Takahama, Vernon written on 1999-02-24
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For a long time Braddell Road had been known as an exclusive residential area, amidst Kampong San Teng and Kampong Woodleigh, but today it runs between Toa Payoh New Town (HDB's second satellite town, built in 1970) and Bishan New Town (built in the 1980s), industrial parks and the Singapore Bus Service bus depot.

 Thomas Braddell, C.M.G., F.R.G.S., F.E.S.L., a very fine Malay scholar, sugar planter and lawyer, served as Attorney-General of the Straits Settlements from 1867 to 1882. He also published a collection of historical documents on the early Singapore settlement under the title Notices of Singapore in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago in the 1850s. His son, Sir Thomas de Multon Lee Braddell, was for a while Attorney-General (1911-1913) and later the Chief Judicial Commissioner of the Federated Malay States. He was knighted in 1914.

Braddell's grandson and Sir Thomas's eldest son, Dato Roland St. John Braddell, was born in Singapore and served as Municipal Commissioner from 1914 to 1929. The fourth Braddell generation, Thomas Lyndhurst Braddell, son of Roland Braddell, was born in 1908. The law firm of Logan and Braddell eventually became the successful law firm, Braddell Brothers.



Author
Vernon Cornelius



References 
Makepeace, W., Brooke, G. E., & Braddell, R. St. J. (Eds.). (1991). One hundred years of Singapore (pp. 423-431). Singapore: Oxford University Press.
(Call no.: RSING 959.57 ONE)

Samuel, D. S. (1939). Malayan street names: What they mean and whom they commemorate (p. 86). Ipoh: Mercantile Press
(Call no.: RSING 959.5 RAJ) 



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Subject
Architecture and Landscape>>Streets and Places
Biographies>>Community Leaders
Street names--Singapore
Arts>>Architecture>>Public and commercial buildings
People and communities>>Social groups and communities



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