Sir Thomas Braddell was an Irish

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 lawyer

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, the first Attorney-General of Singapore

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He was born in Rahingrany, County Wicklow

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 and called to the bar at Gray's Inn

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 in 1859. He took the role of Attorney-General of Singapore

Singapore

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from 1 April 1867 to 1 January 1883. In 1883, his son Thomas de Multon Lee Braddell was himself Attorney-General and, with his brother Robert Wallace Lee Braddell founded the Singapore legal firm of Braddell Brothers.

In the 1850s, he published historical works on the early settlement of Singapore in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago.