Brass was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship in 1811.
[1] He was presented by his college to the living of St Mary's church in Stotfold, Bedfordshire in 1824, which he held till his death, in 1833.
He edited Euclid's Elements of Geometry, London, 1825(?
He published a Greek Gradus in 1828, which was reissued, in two volumes, at Göttingen, under the editorship of C. F. G. Siedhof, in 1839-40, and in England in 1847, under the editorship of the Rev.
The politician Matthew Talbot Baines was a friend and executor.