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:

    Fowls in the frith,
    Fishes in the flood,
    And I must wax wod:
    Much sorrow I walk with
    For best of bone and blood.
    —Unknown. Fowls in the Frith. . .

    Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.