BEDE, CUTHBERT, the pen-name of Edward Bradley (1827-1889), English author, who was born at Kidderminster on March 25, 1827. He entered Durham university in 1845, studied later at Oxford, took holy orders, and eventually became rector of Stretton in Rutlandshire. Here he gained a reputation as a hu morist and numbered among his friends Cruikshank, Frank Smed ley, Mark Lemon and Albert Smith. He is chiefly known as the author of The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Fresh man (1853), which he illustrated himself and of which a third part appeared in 1856. In 1883 he was given the living of Lavington, Lincolnshire, where he died on Dec. 1889.