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BRADLEY, GEORGE GRANVILLE (1821–1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 373 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRADLEY, See also:GEORGE See also:GRANVILLE (1821–1903) , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:December 1821, his See also:father, See also:Charles Bradley, being at that See also:time See also:vicar of Glasbury, See also:Brecon. He was educated at See also:Rugby under See also:Thomas See also:Arnold, and at University See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he became a See also:fellow in 1844. He was an assistant See also:master at Rugby from 1846 to 1858, when he succeeded G. E. L. See also:Cotton as headmaster at See also:Marlborough. In 187o he was elected master of his old college at Oxford, and in See also:August 1881 he was made See also:dean of See also:Westminster in See also:succession to A. P. See also:Stanley, whose See also:pupil and intimate friend he had been, and whose biographer he became. Besides his Recollections of A. P. Stanley (1883) and See also:Life of Dean Stanley (1892), he published See also:Aids to See also:writing Latin See also:Prose See also:Composition and Lectures on See also:Job (1884) and See also:Ecclesiastes (1885).

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part in the See also:coronation of See also:Edward VII., resigned the deanery in 1902, and died on the 13th of See also:March 1903. Dean Bradley's See also:family produced various other members distinguished in literature. His See also:half-See also:brother, See also:ANDREW See also:CECIL BRADLEY (b. 1851), fellow of Balliol, Oxford, became See also:professor of See also:modern literature and See also:history (1881) at University College, See also:Liverpool, and in 1889 regius professor of English See also:language and literature at See also:Glasgow University; and he was professor of See also:poetry at Oxford (1901–1906). Of Dean Bradley's own See also:children the most distinguished in literature were his son, See also:ARTHUR GRANVILLE BRADLEY (b. 1850), author of various See also:historical and topographical See also:works; and especially his daughter, Mrs See also:MARGARET LOUISA See also:WOODS (b. 1856), wife of the Rev. See also:Henry George Woods, See also:president of Trinity, Oxford (1887–1897), and master of the See also:Temple (1904), See also:London. Mrs Woods became well known for her accomplished See also:verse (Lyrics and See also:Ballads, 1889), largely influenced by See also:Robert See also:Bridges, and for her novels, of which her See also:Village Tragedy (1887) was the earliest and strongest.

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