James Braidwood

James Braidwood may refer to:

  • James Braidwood (firefighter) (1800–1861), Scottish firefighter, developed the modern fire service
  • James Braidwood (engineer) (1832–1879), Scottish-born American mining engineer and minor industrialist, namesake of Braidwood, Illinois
  • James Braidwood, prisoner on the St. Michael of Scarborough

Famous quotes containing the word james:

    “A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
    —James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)