Thomas Braddock (priest)
Thomas Braddock or Bradock (c. 1556–1607) was an Anglican clergyman of the 16th century, Headmaster of Reading School from 1588 to 1589 and a translator into Latin.
Born in 1556 in
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Today Braddock is mostly remembered for his translation into Latin of Apologia pro Ecclesia Anglicana, the confutation in six parts by John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury against the criticisms of the Lollard dissenter Thomas Harding. Braddock's translation was published in Geneva in 1600 and was undertaken that foreign scholars and divines might be able to follow the controversy which Jewel's Apologia had caused since its first publication in 1562. Braddock dedicated his work to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, ‘who has filled the diocese with learned men’. Braddock is also remembered for having given books from his own library to the library of Christ's College, where he had studied.[1] A book inscribed with Braddock's signature from his library and with marginalia in his own hand was formerly in the Glenn Christodoulou Collection.
References
. Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ a b c Stephen Wright, ‘Bradock, Thomas (1555/6–1607)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 23 June 2017
- ^ a b Thomas Braddock - Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge from the Earliest Times to 1900 Vol. 1 The Earliest Times to 1752: Part 1 Abbas-Cutts, Cambridge University Press (2011) pg 199 - Google Books
- ^ a b Coates, Charles The History and Antiquities of Reading, J. Nichols and Son, London (1802) pg 335 - Google Books