Sir Edward William Brabrook CB FSA FRAI (10 April 1839 – 20 March 1930) was an English civil servant, author, and anthropologist with a special interest in folklore.

He wrote extensively on the law relating to working-class self-help institutions, promoting legal guides for industrial and provident (co-operative) societies, trade unions, and savings banks.

By his second wife he had two sons: Ernest George (1867-1935), Henry Robert (1870-1941), and eight daughters: Eliza Margaret (1866-1927), Grace Edith (1869-1895), Alice Georgina (1872-1941), Isabel Mary (1874-1945), Flora Catherine (1878-1935), Constance Minnie (1881-1944), Winifred Ellen (1881-1961), and Beatrice Audrey (1885-1895).

Grace Edith was a member of the Incorporated Society of Professional Musicians and an assistant pianist at Trinity College.

[10] Residence At the time of his two daughters’ death and in 1901 Sir Edward was living with this family at 178 Bedford Hill Road, Balham, London, SW12.

[16] Similar properties to No.178 in Bedford Hill Road display panels of red brick on their facades with floral or classical motifs.