Vol. 12 (1851) pp. 218 & 282:

<Mr. Staunton drew against M. Brodie>*, and <Brodie, Alfred, Esq.> as subscriber to the tournament. (Most players were also subscribers. The list e. g. mentions Capt. Kennedy, E. S. Kennedy and a "Kennedy, H. H. Esq." which probably should be <B.> H. Kennedy = Benjamin Hall Kennedy from Shrewsbury (who did not play)). Esq. Alfred Brodie gave 5 pounds, which is quite a lot, and more than most others.

*not the game, but drew from the ballot-box.

Vol. 15 (1854) p. 90:

<two members of the St. George's Chess Club, Mr. Brodie and myself>, and <I dare say if Mr. Brodie is in town, that he will send you an account of his and my interview with the President of the London Chess Club>

Apart from a few other references to the player <Brodie> or <Mr. Brodie>. It is also stated that he entered the tournament as provisional competitor.

<Adjourned.
Alfred Brodie, formerly of No. 89, Pall-mall, Saint James's, Middlesex, and of Eastbourne, Sussex, then of No. 41, Great Portland-street, afterwards of Euston-place, New-road, both in Middlesex aforesaid, and late of Pall-mall, Middlesex aforesaid, and of Hastings, Sussex aforesaid, Esq. (known at the last-mentioned place by the name Bathurst).>

London Gazette Feb. 26, 1839

<To be sold by public auction, by Mr. Hammond, Auctioneer, Chancery-lane, at the Auction Mart, London, on Monday the 25th day of March next, by order of the assignees of Alfred Brodie, an insolvent; A contingent reversionary interest in one eleventh part of two sixteenth shares of the Times and Evening Mail Newspapers; and a like reversionary interest in one eleventh part of £444S 11s. 2d. £3 per Cent. Consols, and all accruing interests to the insolvent's estate on the above, subject to £2000 mortgage and interest.

Also a contingent annuity of £lOO per annum, being well secured on funded property, for the life of the said Alfred Brodie, aged about 29, payable during his life, in the event of his surviving his wife, who is aged about 45.> She was 53, in March 1839.

London Gazette, May 10, 1867:
(case reopened after his mother's death)

Would have been more telling if she'd been 23 years younger.

Here is a comment by Staunton about Brodie's participation in the great 1851 tournament:

<It is proper to mention that Mr. Brodie chivalrously entered the lists as a provisional combatant, pending the arrival of Mr. Schumoff, who was hourly expected from St. Petersburgh ; and although he was unfortunate in being cast to play against so practised an antagonist, he sustained his place gallantly, and was not ingloriously defeated.>

<* To save the assembled players from delay and inconvenience, Mr. Kennedy, like Mr. Brodie, very handsomely volunteered his services, and consented to enter as the locum tenens of Major Jaenisch, who had engaged to be present at the outset, but was prevented.>