Brigadier Firebrace
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Brigadier Roy Firebrace (1889-1974) - siderialist astrologer, editor of Spica magazine.
DATA: According to his own recollection in Spica magazine, Roy was born August 16th 1889, at 5:00 p.m. AST, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A big-framed Canadian, an ex-army man, Firebrace worked closely with the eminent siderealist Cyril Fagan (1896-1970) and gained a lasting enthusiasm for the Sidereal Astrology technique.
Firebrace was one of the founders of the UK Astrological Association in 1958 and was its first president. He wanted the new Association to be exclusively sidereal but this was resisted by other members, so in March 1961 he resigned to found the sidereal journal Spica, which was published regularly by him until October 1974.
He also authored a series of books called "The Moray Series" and contributed to American Astrology magazine.
During his time in Military Intelligence, Firebrace was regrettably instrumental (in 1944) in the arrest and prosecution of Helen Duncan, a famous British spiritualist medium, under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 (which was repealed by Winston Churchill in 1951).
