Frederick Brittan

Brittan, a well-known solicitor of Bristol, who had several other sons, two of whom survive. He received his general education at private schools in his native town, being for a time in the junior department of the old Bristol College, where so many of the older generation here were educated; very many of whom have already passed away. For a short time he went to a school kept by the Rev. George Southwell, at 10 Richmond Hill; and the writer of this notice, who, with one of his brothers, was then at the head of the school, well remembers the advent of a couple of round-faced, chubby little boys, who in process of time developed into Dr. Brittan and his brother Alfred, now a solicitor in this city. Thence they went early to Dublin, where they finished their general education at Trinity College, taking their degrees of B.A. in 1842 , Frederick Brittan taking the additional degree of M.B. in the same year. Being then only in his twentieth year, he came back to Bristol,