Note 28 — Chapter I · : PATRICK BRONTË AND MARIA HIS WIFE

‘Patrick Branty’ is written in another handwriting in the list of admissions at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Dr. J. A. Erskine Stuart, who has a valuable note on the subject in an article on ‘The Brontë Nomenclature’ (Brontë Society’s Publications, Pt. III.), has found the name as Brunty, Bruntee, Bronty, and Branty—but never in Patrick Brontë’s handwriting. There is, however, no signature of Mr. Brontë’s extant prior to 1799.