BRADLEY, GEORGE GRANVILLE (18211903)

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BRADLEY, GEORGE GRANVILLE (18211903) , English divine and scholar, was born on the 11th of December 1821, his father, Charles Bradley, being at that time vicar of Glasbury,

Brecon

BRECON, or BRECKNOCK

. He was educated at Rugby under Thomas

Arnold

, and at University College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1844. He was an assistant master at Rugby from 1846 to 1858, when he succeeded G. E. L.

Cotton

as headmaster at Marlborough. In 187o he was elected master of his old college at Oxford, and in August 1881 he was made dean of Westminster in succession to A. P. Stanley, whose pupil and intimate friend he had been, and whose biographer he became. Besides his Recollections of A. P. Stanley (1883) and Life of Dean Stanley (1892), he published Aids to writing Latin

Prose

PROSE

Composition and Lectures on Job (1884) and Ecclesiastes (1885). He took part in the coronation of Edward VII., resigned the deanery in 1902, and died on the 13th of March 1903.
Dean Bradley's family produced various other members distinguished in literature. His half-brother, ANDREW CECIL BRADLEY (b. 1851), fellow of Balliol, Oxford, became professor of modern literature and history (1881) at University College, Liverpool, and in 1889 regius professor of English language and literature at Glasgow University; and he was professor of poetry at Oxford (19011906). Of Dean Bradley's own children the most distinguished in literature were his son, ARTHUR

GRANVILLE

GRANVILLE
GRANVILLE, GRANVILLE
GRANVILLE, JOHN
CARTERET
- CARTERET, SIR GEORGE (c. 1610-1680)
, EARL (1690-1763)

BRADLEY (b. 1850), author of various historical and topographical works; and especially his daughter, Mrs MARGARET LOUISA WOODS (b. 1856), wife of the Rev.

Henry

George Woods, president of Trinity, Oxford (18871897), and master of the Temple (1904), London. Mrs Woods became well known for her accomplished verse (Lyrics and Ballads, 1889), largely influenced by Robert Bridges, and for her novels, of which her

Village

VILLAGE

Tragedy (1887) was the earliest and strongest.

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