BRAND, JOHN English antiquary, was born on Aug. 19, 1744, at Washington, Durham, where his father was parish clerk. Educated at Newcastle grammar school and Lincoln college, Oxford, he took holy orders, and held various prefer ments, finally becoming rector of St. Mary-at-Hill and St. Mary Hubbard, London. He was for many years secretary to the society of antiquaries. His most important work is Observations on Popular Antiquities: including the whole of Mr. Bourne's "Antiquitates Vulgares" (1777). A new edition, embodying the mss. which he left when he died, was published by Sir Henry Ellis in 1813.