George Granville Bradley

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name = George Granville Bradley


religion = Church of England
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Title = Dean of Westminster
Period = 1881-1902
Predecessor = Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Successor = Joseph Armitage Robinson
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date of birth = December 11, 1821
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date of death = March 13, 1903
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George Granville Bradley (December 11, 1821 – March 13, 1903), was an English divine and scholar. His father, Charles Bradley, was vicar of Glasbury, Brecon.

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 GEL Cotton as Headmaster at Marlborough.

In 1870 he was elected master of his old college at Oxford, and in August 1881 he was made Dean of Westminster in succession to AP 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 Composition" and "Lectures on Job" (1884) and "Ecclesiastes" (1885). He took part in the coronation of Edward VII and resigned the deanery in 1902.

Bradley had two sons and five, of these children one son and four daughters were writers, including Margaret Louisa Woods, Emily Tennyson Bradley (married Alexander Murray Smith), Lady Mabel Birchenough, the wife of Sir Henry Birchenough, public servant and business man and Rose Marion Bradley. [Cite book | author=et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, Ruvigny | authorlink= | coauthors= | title=The Plantagenet roll of the blood royal: being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England | date=1994 |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0aUD4NqGYqAC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=Rose+Marian+Bradley+1867 | publisher=Genealogical Pub. Co. | location=Baltimore | isbn=978-0-8063-1433-4 | pages= p. 419]

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External links

* [http://www.archive.org/details/practicalintrod00arnouoft "Bradley's Arnold" Latin Composition] , 1899
* [http://cid-7c51d883593d5954.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/LATCOMP/BAKeyPart1.pdf Key to the Same]