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

625–6 (1880). BRADLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ Manchester 16 Jany. 1801; a painter and teacher of drawing at Manchester 1817; a portrait painter in London 1822–47; exhibited 13 portraits at Royal Academy, 21 at Free Society of artists, and 8 at British Institution 1823–46. _d._ Manchester 4 July 1857. BRADSHAW, GEORGE (_only son of Thomas Bradshaw of Windsor Bridge, Pendleton, Salford_). _b._ Windsor Bridge 29 July 1801; an engraver and printer at Belfast 1820–21, and at Manchester 1821; projected engraved and published maps of the English counties 1827; published _Bradshaw’s Railway map_ 1838; _Railway time tables_ 1839; _Monthly railway guide_ Dec. 1841 _to death_; _Continental railway guide_ June 1847 _to death_; _General railway directory_ 1849–53; attempted to establish an ocean penny postage; A.I.C.E. Feb. 1842. _d._ of Asiatic cholera near Christiania, Norway 6 Sep. 1853. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii_, 145–9 (1854); _Manchester Guardian 17 Sep. 1853, p._ 7. BRADSHAW, HENRY (_son of J. H. Bradshaw of London_). _b._ London 2 Feb. 1831; ed. at East Sheen and Eton; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1847, fellow 1854 to death, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; assistant master at St. Columba’s college near Dublin for a year; principal library assistant in Cambridge Univ. library March 1857 to Dec. 1858, superintendent of the manuscripts 1859–67, librarian 8 March 1867 to death; pres. of Library Association at the Cambridge meeting 5–8 Sep. 1882; F.S.A. 26 March 1860; author of 17 papers in _Antiquarian Communications_ of Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and of a series of pamphlets which he called _Memoranda_, most important being _The University library_ 1881; found dead in his rooms at King’s coll. Cam. 11 Feb. 1886, having died about 11 p._m._ 10 Feb. _The library chronicle iii_, 25–36 (1886); _Book-lore April 1886, pp._ 141–5. BRADSHAW, JAMES HILL (_eld. son of J. F. Bradshaw, manager of Quebec branch of Bank of Upper Canada_). _b._ Hillsborough, co. Down 21 Aug. 1834; ed. at Quebec; ensign 52 Foot 29 Feb. 1856, lieutenant 11 July 1856 to death; shot through the heart at Delhi 14 Sep.