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BRADBURY, JOHN SWANWICK BRADBURY, 1ST BARON (1872— ), British civil servant, was born at Winsford, Cheshire, Sept. 23, 1872, and educated at the Manchester grammar school and Brasenose college, Oxford. He entered the Civil Service in 1896, and spent most of his official life at the Treasury, of which he became joint permanent secretary in 1913. In that capacity his name became familiar, from his signature on the Treasury notes issued after the outbreak of the World War. Sir John Bradbury was appointed in 1919 chief British representative on the reparations commission, and in this difficult position exer cised the powers conferred on him with great tact and ability. He resigned the post at the beginning of 1925, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bradbury of Winsford. He was chairman of the newly set up food council from 1925 till

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