The younger of the twin sons, with William Herbert Brailey, of William Arthur Brailey (1845-1915), MA, MD, ophthalmic surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Agnes, daughter of John Robinson, was born 8 October 1877. He was educated at Westminster School from 25 September 1890 until April 1896. He was admitted to a minor scholarship at Downing College, where his father was a Fellow and matriculated in the University of Cambridge in Michaelmas term 1896 and in the following year gained a foundation scholarship at the college. He entered Guy's Hospital, his father being then ophthalmic surgeon, with a university scholarship in 1899, acted as ward clerk to W H A Jacobson and was house surgeon to Louis Albert Dunn. He then served as clinical assistant to his father in the ophthalmic department of the hospital, and afterwards went to China as general surgeon and oculist to the Chinkiang Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he held a commission as surgeon-captain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, rising to the position of senior medical officer in the London division, and was afterwards consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Air Force. He was also appointed honorary surgeon to King George V. In 1925 he retired from practice and devoted himself to his favourite pursuits of farming and yachting, living at the Clock House, Dunmow, Essex, which he had restored almost single-handed, for he was skilled at many trades. He was drowned with five others on 20 August 1930 from the yacht *Islander* which foundered in a gale in Lantivet Bay, near Fowey, and his body was buried at sea six miles out between Polruan and Fowey. On 12 July 1931 a ship's bell of silver was unveiled in HMS *President* in memory of Commodore H D King, RNVR with an ivory tablet nearby recording that it was given by the officers and ratings who served with and under Commodore King and the two brother officers of London division, RNVR, Surgeon-Captain Brailey and Commander Searle, who all lost their lives in the wreck of the *Islander*. Publications:- Congenital distichiasis. *Trans ophthal Soc UK*. 1906, 26, 16. Cysts of the pars ciliaris retinae. *Ibid*. 1907, 27, 95.