Bradley, George Granville

BRADLEY, GEORGE GRANVILLE: Dean of Westminster; b. at High Wycombe (30 m. w.n.w. 246of London), Buckinghamshire, Dec. 11, 1821; d. in London Mar. 12, 1903. He studied at Rugby under Arnold (1837–40), and at University College, Oxford (B.A., 1844; M.A., 1847); was fellow of University College 1844–50; became assistant master at Rugby 1846; head master of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, 1858; master of University College, Oxford, 1870; dean of Westminster, London, succeeding Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1881; resigned his deanery 1902. He edited and revised Arnold's Latin Prose Composition (London, 1881), and published Aids to Writing Latin Prose (1884); Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1883); Lectures on Ecclesiastes (Oxford, 1885; new ed., 1898); Lectures on the Book of Job (1887); and assisted R. E. Prothero in preparing the Life and Correspondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (2 vols., London, 1894).