BRADLEY, HENRY (1845-1923), British philologist, was born at Manchester Dec. 3 1845. He was educated at Chesterfield grammar school, became a teacher, and later a clerk in a com mercial house in Sheffield. At the same time he wrote a little for the literary reviews, and this work brought him to London. There he worked for The Athenaeum and The Academy, and through F. York Powell was introduced to The New English Dictionary, then in preparation, and this became his life-work. He succeeded Sir James Murray as senior editor on the latter's death in 1915 and remained on this undertaking until his own death. He worked with Skeat on certain Chaucerian studies, and published several works of his own, notably The Making of English (1904) . He died at Oxford May 23 1923.
See Henry Bradley, Collected Essays, with memoir by Robert Bridges, 1927.