Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

BRACKENRIDGE, GEORGE WEARE (_eld. son of George Brackenridge of Brislington near Bristol, merchant_). _b._ Hanover county, Virginia 4 Jany. 1775; ed. at Dr. Estlin’s school Bristol, England; partner in a leading West India firm; lived at Brislington 1824 to death; formed a good collection of Coleoptera and organic remains; gave greater portion of building fund for Christchurch, Clevedon, also a permanent endowment for church which was consecrated 1839. _d._ Brislington 11 Feb. 1856. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. of London xiv_, 60–62 (1858). BRADBURY, HENRY (_eld. son of the succeeding_). A pupil at Imperial printing office Vienna 1850 where he learnt process of Nature printing which he claimed afterwards to have invented; founded a business in Fetter lane, London which he moved to Farringdon st. and carried on under name of Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co.; produced nature printed plates to Moore and Lindley’s _Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland_ 1855 and Johnstone’s _British sea weeds 4 vols._ 1860–1; author of _Printing, it’s dawn, day, and destiny_ 1858; _Autotypography or art of nature printing_ 1860; _Specimens of bank note engraving_ 1860; committed suicide by drinking prussic acid in Cremorne gardens, London 1 Sep. 1860 aged 30. BRADBURY, WILLIAM. Printer at 76 Fleet st. London 1824; publisher with F. M. Evans in Whitefriars st. 1830; published _The Christmas carol_ 1843; _Punch_ 1843 to death, the _Daily News_ 1846 to death; joint proprietor with C. Dickens, J. Forster and W. H. Wills of _Household Words_ 1850–59; proprietor of _Gent. Mag._ 1866–70. _d._ 13 Upper Woburn place, London 11 April 1869 in 70 year. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 485 (1869); _C. Beavan’s Reports of cases in chancery xxvii_, 53–61 (1861). BRADDYLL, EDWARD STANLEY BAGOT RICHMOND GALE. _b._ 1803; contested North Durham 21 Dec. 1832; fought a duel with Russell Bowlby at Offerton lane near Herrington, Durham 27 Sep. 1832 and another with Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart. at the Hare and Hounds on the Sedgefield road same day. _d._ Windermere Bank, Bowness, Ambleside 2 Sep. 1874 aged 71. _Sykes’s Local Records ii_, 397–8 (1833). BRADEN, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Marylebone, London 22 Nov. 1840; ed. at Maida Hill gr. sch. and Cheshunt coll.; Congregational minister at St. Alban’s 1861 at Hillhouse chapel Huddersfield 1866 and at the King’s Weigh house chapel, London Jany. 1871 to death; edited the _English Independent_; author of _The beautiful gleaner, A Hebrew pastoral story_ 1872; _Our social relationships_ 1876. _d._ Clapton, London 20 July 1878. _Sermons by the Rev. W. Braden, edited by Agnes Braden_ 1880; _J. Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 598–602 (1878). BRADFIELD, HENRY JOSEPH STEELE (_son of Thomas Bradfield of Derby st. Westminster, coal merchant_). _b._ Derby st. Westminster 18 May 1805; left England in the schooner Unicorn as surgeon under Lord Cochrane 26 April 1826; sous lieutenant in Bataillon Etranger of Belgium 1 Sep. 1832; stipendiary magistrate in Tobago 31 Dec. 1835, removed to Trinidad 13 May 1836, re-appointed to the Southern or Cedros district 13 April 1839; private sec. to Lieutenant Governor of Dominica 1841, colonial sec. in Barbados 1842; author of _Waterloo or the British minstrel a poem_ 1825; _The Athenaid or modern Grecians a poem_ 1830; _Tales of the Cyclades and other poems_ 1830; committed suicide by drinking a bottle of prussic acid in coffee room of St. Albans hotel, 12 Charles st. St. James’s sq. London 11 Oct. 1852. _G.M. xxxix_, 102 (1853); _Morning Post 13 Oct. 1852 p._ 4 _and 15 Oct. p._ 6. BRADFORD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK HENRY BRIDGEMAN, 2 Earl of. _b._ 23 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1810; succeeded 7 Sep.