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BRADBY—BRADLEY. examination early in 1812; and, after an attachment of some months to the 120, flagship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edward Pellew, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 5 Feb. . His subsequent appointments, in the latter capacity, were – 20 March following, again to the Berwick, commanded, as before, by Capt. E. Brace, off Toulon and the coast of Italy – 14 Oct. 1814, to the  26, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell, on Channel service – 15 April, 1815, to the  36, Capt. Hon. Anth. Maitland, fitting at Portsmouth – 16 July, 1816, to the 56, as Flag-Lieutenant to Commodore Sir Robert Hall, on the lakes of Canada – 21 Sept. ensuing, to the acting-command of the  10, on Lake Ontario – and, 15 Sept. 1817, to the  48, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, with whom he served in the West Indies, under the flag of Sir Home Popham, until the receipt of his second commission, 7 Dec. 1818. On 28 Sept. 1824, Capt. Brace obtained command of the 18, in which we find him effecting the capture of a smuggling lugger on the coast of Ireland 1 Feb. 1825, and subsequently, up the Mediterranean, of three piratical vessels, as also the destruction of a fourth. Attaining Post-rank, 14 Aug. 1827, he commanded, from 19 June, 1837, until superseded, 2 Sept. following, the 78, fitting at Plymouth; and was Flag-Captain to Sir Edw. Brace in the 104, from 16 Dec. 1841, until the death of that  officer in Dec. 1843. He has since been on half-pay.

Capt. Brace married, 15 April, 1833, Elizabeth, daughter of John Middleton, Esq., of Clifton, and has issue.

 BRADBY. 

entered the Navy, 12 Dec. 1797, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 20, Capt. Jas. Bradby, on the North Sea station; removed, as Midshipman, in Aug. 1800, to the 32, commanded, in the West Indies, by the same officer and by Capt. Edw. Durnford King; and, in Feb. 1802, was paid off at Plymouth from the 44, Capt. Wm. Taylor. He next served, from Oct. 1803, until Sept. 1807, in the 98, Capts. Joseph Sydney Yorke and Geo. Losack, employed in the Channel and West Indies; and, after a further attachment to the 74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, off Cadiz, 100, Capt. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, at Spithead,  80, Capt. J, S. Yorke, In the Downs, and  74, and  98, both flag-ships in the Tagus of Vice-Admiral Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, was made Lieutenant into the 74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, 7 July, 1809. Mr. Bradby continued cruizing in the latter ship off the Western Islands, before the port of Cadiz, and in the Mediterranean, until 14 Aug. 1810; subsequently to which period we find him appointed – 26 Jan. 1811, to the 10, Capts. Sam. Clarke and Wm. Hill, under the former of whom he assisted in capturing, off Fécamp, the French privateer, of 16 guns and 50 men, 6 Oct. in the same year – and, 18 May, 1814, to the 36, Capt. Geo. Langford, from which ship, after serving in the East Indies, he was paid off, 31 Dec. 1816. He has not since been afloat.

 BRADLEY. 

was born, 26 Oct. 1795, at Cowbridge, in Glamorganshire.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 Sept. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. Hon. Jas. Wm. King, under whom he soon attained the rating of Midshipman, and continued actively to serve, in the West Indies and off the coasts of Newfoundland and Holland, until Nov. 1814. During the unfortunate attack on Bergen-op-Zoom, in the latter year, he was occasionally employed on shore with the army, and carried the despatches from that place to Helvoetsluys. He next joined the 74, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope; passed his examination Dec. 1815; and subsequently served, as Admiralty-Midshipman – from the latter date until Jan. 1819, in the 36, Capts. Jas. Haldane Tait and John M‘Kellar, on the West India station, where he was frequently detached in the boats for the suppression of piracy – for the four succeeding years, in the and, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade – and, from Dec. 1823, to July, 1824, in the 10, Capt. Hon. Geo. Barrington. In the boats of that vessel, then in the Gulf of Mexico, he captured the 'San Jose' piratical schooner, the command of which he retained, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, until within a few days of the receipt of his commission, 18 Jan. 1825, when he returned home in the 18, Capt. Chas. Crole. Lieut. Bradley – who, from 11 Dec. 1826, to 19 March, 1830, in the and  74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, was again employed on the Coast Blockade service – obtained command of the  brig, of 10 guns, 15 Dec. 1834. On leaving the Tagus, previously to being put out of commission in April, 1838, he received from Sir J. A. Ommanney, the Commander-in-Chief, one of the strongest possible recommendations for preferment, in consequence of the exemplary zeal and ability of his services during the disturbances in Spain and Portugal; yet, singular as it may appear, Lieut. Bradley is the only unpromoted officer who held a command at that period. On one occasion, when the merchant-brig was wrecked near Beachy Head, Lieut. Bradley courageously put off in a galley and had the happiness of saving the crew from a watery grave, a service which was duly acknowledged by a vote of thanks from Lloyd’s. He is at present unemployed.

He married, 22 Sept. 1831, and has issue two children.

 BRADLEY. 

, born, 21 Dec. 1797, in the parish of St. Decuman, co. Somerset, is eldest son of the late Rev. W. S. Bradley, Vicar of Chard and Timberscombe, in the same shire.

This officer entered the Navy, 18 June, 1810, as a Volunteer, on board the 38, Capt. Peter Parker, in which ship, after witnessing the reduction of the Isle of France in Dec. following, and serving off St. Helena, he proceeded to the Mediterranean, where he became Midshipman, in Feb. 1813, of the  120, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, one of Sir Edw. Pellew’s ships in a skirmish, which took place on 5 Nov. followdng, with the Toulon squadron. He next joined, early in 1814, the 100, and  74, and, from May in that year until Nov. 1815, served on board the  38, all commanded by Capt. Chas. Thurlow Smith, on the same station. In the latter frigate he was present, in 1815, at the capture of the Tremiti islands, and of a flotilla of gun-boats out of Brindisi. We afterwards find him employed for seven years, off St. Helena and the coast of Ireland, and also in the West Indies, as Mate of the 20, Capts. Robt. Worgan Geo. Jesting, Geo. Fred. Rich, and Edw. Purcell. In 1822 he joined the 18, Capt. Chas. Crole, and while in that vessel (having in Dec. 1816, passed his examination) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 20 Sept. 1824. He was paid off, on his return home from the West Indies, in Feb. 1825, and has not since been afloat.

Lieut. Bradley holds the appointment of Harbour Master at Porth Cawe. He married, 11 Dec. 1835, Sophia, only daughter of Commander Benj. Smith, R.N., of Bristol; and by that lady has issue four sons. – J. Hinxman.

 BRADLEY. 

entered the Navy, 2 March, 1798, on board the, of 82 guns and 634 men, Capt. Alex. Hood, and, on 21 April following, was present at the capture of the French ship L’Hercule, of 78 guns and 680 men, after a Tremendous 