Presidents of the College of the Holy Cross:
Rev. Robert W. Brady, S.J.
Eighth and Twelfth President of Holy Cross
1867 - 1869 1883 - 1887
Robert W. Brady, twice President of Holy Cross, was born in Hancock, Maryland on October 16, 1825. He studied at St. John's College, MD and entered the Society of Jesus on August 31, 1843 at Frederick, MD.
As a scholastic, he taught humanities at Georgetown (1845-1847) and at Holy Cross (1847-1852). After studying theology at Georgetown, he was ordained a priest in 1857. In 1867, he was named President of Holy Cross. During his tenure as president, he added the west wing and the spires of Fenwick Hall.
He left Holy Cross in 1869 to serve one year as President of Boston College. From 1877 to 1882 he was the Provincial of the Maryland Jesuits . He returned to Holy Cross in 1883 to 1887 to serve his second term as college president.
He became Pastor of Trinity Church at Georgetown College Washington, D.C. where he died on March 26, 1891.