A. C. Bradley
British literary scholar
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- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- Masters Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Andrew Cecil Bradley, was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare. Life Bradley was born at Park Hill, Clapham, then in Surrey but now part of London. His father was the preacher Charles Bradley , vicar of Glasbury, a noted evangelical Anglican preacher and leader of the so-called Clapham Sect. Charles had thirteen children by his first wife, who died in 1831, and nine by his second wife Emma Linton. Bradley was the youngest of the nine born to Emma and Charles; his older brother, philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, was the fifth. Bradley studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He obtained a Balliol Fellowship in 1874 and lectured first in English and subsequently in philosophy until 1881. He then took a permanent position at the University of Liverpool where he lectured on literature. In 1889 he moved to Glasgow as Regius Professor. In 1901 he was elected to the Oxford professorship of poetry. During his five years in this post he produced Shakespearean Tragedy and Oxford Lectures on Poetry . He was later made an honorary fellow of Balliol and was awarded honorary doctorates from Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Durham, and was offered the King Edward VII chair at Cambridge. Bradley never married; he lived in London with his sister and died at 6 Holland Park Road, Kensington, London, on 2 September 1935. His will established a research fellowship for young scholars of English Letters.
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