George Granville Bradley

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CVO
Dean of Westminster
ChurchChurch of England
In office1881–1902
PredecessorArthur Penrhyn Stanley
SuccessorArmitage Robinson
Personal details
Born(1821-12-11)11 December 1821
Died13 March 1903(1903-03-13) (aged 81)
BuriedWestminster Abbey
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglicanism
EducationRugby School
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
Punch cartoon of Bradley, on his appointment to Westminster. The caption reads, "Bless Thee! Thou Art Translated!"

George Granville Bradley

CVO (11 December 1821 – 13 March 1903) was an English divine, scholar, and schoolteacher, who was Dean of Westminster
(1881–1902).

Life

Bradley was a son of the preacher

Francis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924), and literary scholar Andrew Cecil Bradley (1851–1935).[1]

Bradley was educated at

G.E.L. Cotton as Headmaster of Marlborough College in Wiltshire.[3] In the same year he look Holy Orders.[2]

In 1870, Bradley was elected

Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, becoming Chaplain in Ordinary in 1876.[2] In 1878 he was chosen as the first chairman of the Association for the Education of Women, which aimed to promote the education of women at the university.[5]

In 1881 Bradley was given a canonry in

Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on 9 August 1902, and asked the King to be allowed to resign from his duties later the same month.[6] For his service, he was invested as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) two days after the ceremony, on 11 August 1902.[7][8]

Bradley was an Acting Chaplain of the 13th Middlesex (Queen's Westminsters) Volunteer Rifle Corps for 20 years, and received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration (VD) on 21 February 1902,[9] before he resigned this appointment in November 1902.[10]

The very reverend George Granville Bradley, of 42 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster died on 13 March 1903. He was buried at Westminster Abbey on 17 March. The pall-bearers included the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Henry Montagu Butler; the Master of University College, Oxford, James Franck Bright; and the Headmasters of Marlborough and Rugby.[11]

F. D. How included Bradley in the 1904 book Six Great Schoolmasters.[12]

Works

Besides his Recollections of A. P. Stanley (1883) and Life of Dean Stanley (1892), Bradley published a revised version of Thomas Kerchever Arnold's Latin Prose Composition (commonly referred to by generations of Latin students as "Bradley's Arnold"); his more advanced intended work on Aids to Writing Latin Prose: with Exercises was edited and completed by T. L. Papillon. Further works were Lectures on Job (1884) and Ecclesiastes (1885).[3]

Family

Bradley married Marian Jane Philpot

Rose Marian Bradley.[14]

References

  1. ^ DiPietro, Cary. Bradley, Greg, Folger: Great Shakespeareans:, Volume 9. New York: Continuum, 2011, p. 14 (See W. W. Greg and Henry Clay Folger.)
  2. ^ a b c "The Late Dr. Bradley", The Graphic, p. 380, 21 March 1903
  3. ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
  4. B. T. Batsford
    . pp. 49–50.
  5. ISBN 9780199243563
    .
  6. ^ "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times. No. 36843. London. 11 August 1902. p. 11.
  7. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36844. London. 12 August 1902. p. 8.
  8. ^ "No. 27467". The London Gazette. 22 August 1902. p. 5461.
  9. ^ "No. 27409". The London Gazette. 21 February 1902. p. 1121.
  10. ^ "No. 27501". The London Gazette. 5 December 1902. p. 8447.
  11. ^ "Funeral of Dr. Bradly: Impressive Ceremony in the Abbey", Morning Post, p. 7, 18 March 1903
  12. ^ "Review of Six Great Schoolmasters by F. D. How". The Athenaeum (4031): 102. 28 January 1905.
  13. ^ Fifth daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Philpot, rector of Great Cressingham, and late Archdeacon of Man. See "Marriages", Cambridge Independent Press, p. 3, 22 December 1849
  14. ^ et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, Ruvigny (1994).
    ISBN 978-0-8063-1433-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )

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