Edward Bradby

Rev. Edward Henry Bradby (1827–1893) was a classicist.

Academic timeline

• Educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford (1845)
• Canon of St. Albans
• Principal at Hatfield College, Durham University (1852)
• House Master at Harrow (1853–1868)
• Headmaster of Haileybury College (1868–1883)

Bradby retired somewhat early from Haileybury to do mission work in the east end of London, where he remained until his death.

Children

• Lucy Barbara Hammond (née Bradby), Historian
• Henry Christopher Bradby, Cricketer, Poet, Teacher, father of poet Anne Ridler[1]
• Godfrey Fox Bradby, Author, Teacher
• Edward Bradby, Cricketer, Solicitor
• Mabel Agatha Bradby (1865–1944), mother of Letitia Chitty,structural analytical engineer, first female fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society[2]
• Dorothy Bradbury

References

1. "Ridler, Anne Barbara [née Bradby] (1912–2001), poet and writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76404. Retrieved 2020-09-27. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Barrett, Anne (2018). "Chitty, Letitia (1897–1982), mathematician and civil engineer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.70068. Retrieved 2020-09-27.