BRADSHAW, HENRY British scholar and librarian, was born in London on Feb. 2, 1831, and died on Feb. 1o, 1886. He was educated at Eton, and became a fellow of King's college, Cambridge. After a short scholastic career in Ireland he accepted an appointment in the Cambridge university library as an extra assistant. When he found that his official duties absorbed all his leisure he resigned his post, but continued to give his time to the examination of the mss. and early printed books in the library. In addition to his achievements in black letter bibliography he threw great light on ancient Celtic language and literature by the discovery, in 1857, of the Book of Deer, a manuscript copy of the Gospel in the Vulgate version, in which were inscribed old Gaelic charters. This was published by the Spalding Club in 1869. Bradshaw also discovered some Celtic glosses on the ms. of a metrical paraphrase of the Gospels by Ju vencus. He made another important find in the Cambridge library : Cromwell's envoy, Sir Samuel Morland (1625-95), had brought back from Piedmont mss. containing the earliest known Walden sian records, consisting of translations from the Bible, religious treatises and poems. One of the poems referred the work to the beginning of the 11th century, though the 1nss. did not appear to be of earlier date than the 15th century. On this Morland had based his theory of the antiquity of the Waldensian doctrine, and, in the absence of the mss., which were supposed to be irretriev ably lost, the conclusion was accepted. Bradshaw discovered the mss. in the university library, and found in the passage in dicated traces of erasure. The original date proved to be 1400. Incidentally the correct date was of great value in the study of the history of the language. In 1866 he discovered 2,200 lines on the siege of Troy incorporated in a ms. of Lydgate's Troye Booke, and of the Legends of the Saints, an important work of some 40,000 lines. These poems he attributed, erroneously, as has since been proved, to Barbour. He was elected (1867) uni versity librarian, and as dean of his college (18S7-65) and prae lector (1863-68) he was involved in further routine duties. His papers on antiquarian subjects were edited by Mr. F. Jen kinson 1889.