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. 1857. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians (1862) 712–19.
BRADSHAW, Joseph. Ensign 37 Foot 12 May 1825; lieut. col. 60 Rifles 9 May 1845 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Kussowlie, North Western provinces of India 18 Oct. 1851.
BRADSHAW, Lawrence. Ensign 46 Foot 25 Sep. 1780; lieut. col. 13 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 2 Feb. 1803; major 1 Life Guards 2 Feb. 1803 to 1 March 1812 when he sold out; a comr. of military inquiry 1806–12; M.G. 25 July 1810, retired 1826. d. Harley st. London 10 Jany. 1853 aged 84.
BRADSHAW, Thomas Joseph Cavendish (eld. son of Joseph Hoare Bradshaw of London, banker who d. 24 May 1845 aged 61). b. 17 Oct. 1824; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; secretary to Royal commission on judicature 1867–71; judge of county courts of Northumberland (Circuit No. 1) 27 Oct. 1871 to death. d. in a room adjoining town hall, Newcastle 17 Dec. 1884.
BRADSTREET, Sir Simon, 4 Baronet. b. Upper Leeson st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1772; succeeded March 1791; a member of Repeal association many years. d. Clontarf near Dublin 25 Oct. 1853.
BRADWELL, Edmund (son of Wm. Bradwell of Covent Garden theatre London, mechanician who d. 4 Aug. 1849). Theatrical decorator and mechanician in London; introduced some extraordinary mechanical changes into Tom Dibdin’s pantomime of Guy, Earl of Warwick at Victoria theatre Dec. 1833; mechanician at Olympic, Lyceum, Her Majesty’s and other theatres. d. 11 Magdala terrace, Lordship lane Dulwich 25 July 1871 aged 72. Era 30 July 1871, p. 11, col. 4.
BRADY, Sir Antonio (eld. son of Anthony Brady, storekeeper at Royal William victualling yard, Plymouth). b. Deptford 10 Nov. 1811; junior clerk in Royal Victoria victualling yard Deptford 29 Nov. 1828; clerk in accountant general’s office London 26 June 1844; registrar of contracts 1864; superintendent of purchase and contract department 13 April 1869 to 31 March 1870 when he retired on a special pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 June 1870; promoted the Plaistow mission and East London museum; pres. of Inventors’ Institute; a judge in Verderer’s Court for forest of Epping; made a collection of fossil Mammalia which is now in Natural history museum Kensington; author of The Church’s work and its hindrances with suggestions for church reform 1869; Catalogue of Pleistocene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex 1874. d. Maryland point, Forest lane, Stratford Essex 12 Dec. 1881. Geological Mag. 1882, p. 93.