George Granville Bradley | |
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| Dean of Westminster | |
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| Church | Church of England |
| In office | 1881–1902 |
| Predecessor | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley |
| Successor | Armitage Robinson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1821-12-11)11 December 1821 |
| Died | 13 March 1903(1903-03-13) (aged 81) |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Education | Rugby School |
| Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
George Granville BradleyCVO (11 December 1821 – 13 March 1903) was anEnglishdivine, scholar, and schoolteacher, who wasDean of Westminster (1881–1902).
Bradley was a son of the preacherCharles Bradley (1789–1871), vicar of Glasbury, a notedevangelical Anglican preacher and leader of the so-calledClapham Sect.Charles had thirteen children (twelve surviving) by his first wife, who died in 1831, and nine by his second wife Emma Linton. George Bradley was among the elder sons; his younger half-brothers included philosopherFrancis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924), and literary scholarAndrew Cecil Bradley (1851–1935).[1]
Bradley was educated atRugby underThomas Arnold. He won an open scholarship atUniversity College, Oxford, where in 1844 Bradley gained a first-class degree inliterae humaniores. He was immediately elected to a Fellowship at University and, in the following year, won the Chancellor's prize for the Latin essay.[2] He was an assistant master at Rugby from 1846 to 1858, when he succeededG.E.L. Cotton as Headmaster ofMarlborough College inWiltshire.[3] In the same year he look Holy Orders.[2]
In 1870, Bradley was electedMaster of his old college atOxford. Under his mastership, he and the fellows of the college celebrated its apocryphal thousandth anniversary since its supposed founding byAlfred the Great.[4] In 1874 he was appointed examining chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, DrArchibald Campbell Tait, under whom he had served at Rugby. In 1874 and 1875 he was Select Preacher at Oxford; he was alsoHonorary Chaplain to the Queen, becomingChaplain in Ordinary in 1876.[2] In 1878 he was chosen as the first chairman of theAssociation for the Education of Women, which aimed to promote the education of women at the university.[5]
In 1881 Bradley was given a canonry inWorcester Cathedral; in August that year he was appointed Dean ofWestminster in succession toArthur Penrhyn Stanley, whose pupil and intimate friend he had been, and whose biographer he became.[3] Shortly afterwards he was conferred the degree of DD byUniversity College, Oxford. By the turn of the 20th century, he was in declining health, and had to be absent from his duties for considerable periods. He took part in theCoronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on 9 August 1902, and askedthe King to be allowed to resign from his duties later the same month.[6] For his service, he was invested as a Commander of theRoyal Victorian Order (CVO) two days after the ceremony, on 11 August 1902.[7][8]
Bradley was an Acting Chaplain of the13th Middlesex (Queen's Westminsters) Volunteer Rifle Corps for 20 years, and received theVolunteer 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 bookSix Great Schoolmasters.[12]
Besides hisRecollections of A. P. Stanley (1883) andLife of Dean Stanley (1892), Bradley published a revised version ofThomas Kerchever Arnold'sLatin Prose Composition (commonly referred to by generations of Latin students as "Bradley's Arnold"); his more advanced intended work onAids to Writing Latin Prose: with Exercises was edited and completed by T. L. Papillon. Further works wereLectures on Job (1884) andEcclesiastes (1885).[3]
Bradley married Marian Jane Philpot[13] atGreat Cressingham on 18 December 1849. They had two sons and five daughters; of these children one son,Arthur Granville Bradley (1850–1943), and four daughters were writers, includingMargaret Louisa Woods,Emily Tennyson Bradley (married Alexander Murray Smith), Mabel Charlotte, the Lady Birchenough (the wife of SirHenry Birchenough, public servant and business man) andRose Marian Bradley.[14]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bradley, George Granville".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 373.
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