DEATH OF DEAN BRADLEY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 63, 14 March 1903, Page 2

DEATH OF DEAN BRADLEY.

Per Press Association. Received 13 10.46 p.m. | Losdon, Maich 13. - Dean Bradley is dead. [Tbe Very Rev. George Granville Bradley, D.D , L.L.D., son of the Charles Biadley, was born in 1821 and educated under Dr. Arnold at Rugby, pioceedirg from thence to University ! College, Oxford, where be took firstcla?s classical honours in 1844, and in the following year giined the Chancellor's priz) for a Latin essay and was e'ee'ed to a Fellowship. He returned j to Rugby ns an assistant mastar where hfl remained for sonn years under tho late Dr. Tait, subsequently Archbishop of C tuterbury, and his 1858 he was appointed headmaster of Marlborough College, and in the same was ordained. Af er occupying several iouporfcan'; ecclesiastical appointments, including that of chaplain to tha late Queen, he obtained in 1881 a Oanonry in Worcester Cathedral and 1-tter in the yoar he succeeded Dean i Stanley as Dean of Westminster, an j office which he has filled in every way j worthy of the traditions of th) vener- \ abls Abbey over which he was called upon to rule. It will be remembered ; 'hat he teok part in the Coronation <>f Kinj< Edward, but was then in a very weak st.ate and has been giadually losing his hold on life ever since.]