Arthur Granville Bradley

Arthur Granville Bradley (11 November 1850, Rugby, Warwickshire – 11 January 1943) was a British historian and an author of numerous books.^[1] His father was George Granville Bradley, Dean of Westminster.

Biography

A. G. Bradley was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent several years farming in Virginia. Upon his return to England, he became a colonial agent in Westminster. From 1897 to 1926 he was a prolific author of books. In 1874 he married a surgeon's daughter Florence Rackham; they had one daughter.^[2]

Works

• Wolfe. 1895.^[3]
• Sketches from Old Virginia. 1897.
• Highways and Byways in North Wales. 1898.
• The Fight with France for North America. A. Constable and co. 1900.
• Highways and Byways in the Lake District. 1901.
• Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence. Heroes of the nationsv. 33. Putnam. 1901.^[4]
• Highways and Byways in South Wales. 1903.
• Canada in the Twentieth Century. 1903.
• "Chapter IV. The Conquest of Canada (1744–1761)". The Cambridge Modern History, vol. 7. 1903.
• Life of Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester. 1905.
• Captain John Smith. 1906.^[5]
• In the March and Borderland of Wales. Houghton. 1906.
• Round about Wiltshire. 1907.
• Lord Dorchester. 1907.
• The Making of Canada. 1908.
• The Rivers and Streams of England. Adam and Charles Black 1909.
• The Romance of Northumberland. A. C. McClure. 1909.
• Wiltshire. Cambridge County Geographies. 1909.
• The Avon and Shakespeare's Country. 1910.
• Britain across the Seas, America. 1911.
• The Gateway of Scotland. 1912.
• Herefordshire. Cambridge County Geographies. 1913.
• Other Days, Recollections of Rural England and Old Virginia, 1860–1880. Constable and company. 1913.
• Clear Waters. Houghton Mifflin company. 1914.
• An Old Gate of England. 1918.
• A Book of the Severn. 1920.
• In Praise of North Wales. Houghton, Mifflin. 1925.
• Exmoor Memories. 1926.

References

1. "Bradley, Arthur Granville". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 202.
2. "Bradley, Arthur Granville (BRDY869AG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "The Hero of Quebec; Wolfe. By A. G. Bradley". NY Times. 21 July 1895.
4. Creighton, Mandell; Winsor, Justin; Gardiner, Samuel Rawson; Poole, Reginald Lane; Edwards, Sir John Goronwy (January 1902). "Review: Owen Glyndwr, by A. G. Bradley". The English Historical Review: 192–193.
5. "Review: Captain John Smith, by A. G. Bradley". The London Quarterly and Holborn Review. 105: 149–150. 1906.

External links

• Works by Arthur Granville Bradley at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Arthur Granville Bradley at the Internet Archive