BRADLEY, GEORGE GRANVILLE Eng lish divine and scholar, was born on Dec. I1, 1821, at Glasbury, Brecon. He was educated at Rugby under Thomas Arnold, and at University college, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1844. He was an assistant master at Rugby from 1846 to 1858, when he succeeded G. E. L. Cotton as headmaster at Marl borough. In 1870 he was elected master of his old college at Oxford, and in Aug. 188r he was made dean of Westminster in succession to A. P. Stanley, whose pupil and intimate friend he had been, and whose life he wrote. Besides his Recollections of A. P. Stanley (1883) and Life of Dean Stanley (1892), he pub lished Aids to writing Latin Prose Composition and Lectures on Job (1884) and Ecclesiastes (1885). He took part in the corona tion of Edward VII., resigned the deanery in 1902, and died on March 13, 1903.
Dean Bradley's half-brother, ANDREW CECIL BRADLEY (b. 1851), was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1901 to 1906 and author of the well-known book on Shakespearean Tragedy (1904), which passed through many editions. Of his children, Mrs. Margaret Woods is separately noticed; ARTHUR GRANVILLE BRADLEY (b. 185o) wrote many historical and topographical works.