Vicar of Rowington in Warwickshire for forty four years. An accomplished geologist, he made a particular study of fossil insects and published many articles on them, some of which refer to Coleoptera. Perhaps his best known work is his rare book History of the Fossil Insects of the Secondary Rocks of Britain, 1845, which includes ten plates by J.O. Westwood. He was a member of the Geological Society from 1834.
Brodie’s finds are discussed in Ross, A.J and Jarzembowski, E.A. ‘A Provisional Checklist of the Fossil Insects from the Purbeck Group of Wiltshire’ in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 89, 1996, 106-115, and there are obituaries in Ent.mon.Mag., 33, 1897, 284, and Trans.Ent.Soc,Lond., 1897, lxxii. Smith (1986) records letters from Brodie and W.R. Brodie to J.O. Westwood (1853-4) in the HDO. (MD 12/01)