George Granville Bradley
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England
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divine, scholar, and schoolteacher.
Life
George Bradley's father, Charles Bradley, was vicar of GlasburyGlasbury
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, Brecon
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He was educated at Rugby
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under Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold
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, and at University College, Oxford
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, of which he became a Fellow in 1844. He was an assistant master at Rugby from 1846 to 1858, when he succeeded GEL Cotton
George Edward Lynch Cotton
George Edward Lynch Cotton was an English educator and clergyman, known for his connections with British India and the public school system.-Life in England:...
as Headmaster at Marlborough College
Marlborough College
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in Wiltshire
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In 1870, he was elected Master
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of his old college at Oxford
University of Oxford
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, and in August 1881 he was made Dean of Westminster
Westminster Abbey
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in succession to AP Stanley
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was an English churchman, Dean of Westminster, known as Dean Stanley. His position was that of a Broad Churchman and he was the author of works on Church History.-Life and times:...
, whose pupil and intimate friend he had been, and whose biographer he became.
Works
Besides his Recollections of A. P. Stanley (1883) and Life of Dean Stanley (1892), he published Aids to writing Latin Prose Composition and Lectures on Job (1884) and Ecclesiastes (1885). He took part in the coronation of King Edward VIIEdward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
and resigned the deanery in 1902.
Family
Bradley had two sons and five daughters; of these children one son, Arthur Granville Bradley (1850–1943), and four daughters were writers, including Margaret Louisa WoodsMargaret Louisa Woods
Margaret Louisa Woods was an English writer, known for novels and poetry. She was the daughter of the scholar George Granville Bradley and sister to fellow writer Mabel Birchenough...
, Emily Tennyson Bradley (married Alexander Murray Smith), Lady Mabel Birchenough (the wife of Sir Henry Birchenough
Henry Birchenough
Sir John Henry Birchenough, 1st Baronet, GCMG was an English businessman and public servant.-Early life and education:...
, public servant and business man) and Rose Marion Bradley.