Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (stockbroker)

[citation needed] He was the son of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, a barrister and Quaker minister, and his wife Martha Gillet.

In 1901, Braithwaite married Margaret Grace Moscrip (born c.1867 in Morebattle, Roxburghshire) in the Islington district of London.

[1] At the time of the 1911 census, Braithwaite was living at Highlands House (see below) with Margaret and his sister-in-law Janet Cranstow Moscrip.

[4] As an amateur astronomer, Braithwaite included a copper-domed observatory at the top of the house with a telescope on rails offering 360 degree views of the sky.

The gardens, which are thought to have been planned by Braithwaite, had rockworks added around 1871 that were probably the work of James Pulham and Son of nearby Broxbourne.