Rev. Edward Henry Bradby (1827–1893) was a

classicist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

Academic timeline

*Educated at

Rugby School Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...

and

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world. With a governing body of a master and aro ...

(1845) *Canon of

St. Albans St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major town on the old Roman r ...

*Principal at

Hatfield College Hatfield College is one of the constituent colleges of Durham University in England. It occupies a city centre site above the River Wear on the World Heritage Site peninsula, lying adjacent to North Bailey and only a short distance from Durha ...

Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r ...

(1852) *House Master at

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(1853–1868) *Headmaster of

Haileybury College Haileybury is a co-educational public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for 11- to 18-year-olds) located in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire. It is a member of the Rugby Group and enrols pupils at the 11+, 13+ and 16+ stages of edu ...

(1868–1883) Bradby retired somewhat early from Haileybury to do mission work in the east end of

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, where he remained until his death.

Children

* Lucy Barbara Hammond (née Bradby), Historian * Henry Christopher Bradby, Cricketer, Poet, Teacher, father of poet

Anne Ridler Anne Barbara Ridler OBE (née Bradby) (30 July 1912 – 15 October 2001) was a British poet and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber ''A Little Book of Modern Verse'' with T. S. Eliot (1941). Her ''Collected Poems'' (Carcanet Press) w ...

* Godfrey Fox Bradby, Author, Teacher * Edward Bradby, Cricketer, Solicitor *Mabel Agatha Bradby (1865–1944), mother of Letitia Chitty,structural analytical engineer, first female fellow of the

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*Dorothy Bradby

References

Academics of Durham University 1827 births 1893 deaths British classical scholars Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford People educated at Rugby School Masters of Hatfield College, Durham {{UK-academic-bio-stub