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Braddon, Miss Mary Elizabeth.

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Bradford, Alden, LL D., 1765-1843. A Citizen of Boston. An American au- thor ; b. in'Duxbury, Mass.; Harv. Univ., 1786; tutor there, 1791-93; minister of Pownalborough (now Wiscassetj, Me, 1793-1801, then removed to Boston; Sec- rotary of State of Massachusetts, 1812- 24; engaged in literary work, 1824-43; d in Boston.

Bradford, Rev Claudius. The Whip. An American Unit, minister and social reformer,

Bradford, Capt. Gamaliel, A.M., 1763-1824. An Officer of this Establish- ment at Gharhstown An American sea- man ; b. in Duxbury, Mass. ; served in the Revolutionary War, 1776-83; fol- lowed the sea, 1783-1808; was warden of the Charlestown (Mass. ) State Prison, 1813-24.

Bradford, Oamaliel, M.D., 1795- 1839. A Gentleman of Massachusetts. An American physician; b. in Boston; Harv. Univ., 1814 ; Superintendent of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1833-39.

Bradford, Samuel F. Timothy Tickletoby. An American printer, book- seller, and stationer, of Philadelphia, son of Thomas Bradford.

Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-. Icono- clast. An English Radical; b. in Lon- don ; was successively an errand-hoy in a solicitor's office, a wharf -clerk and cash- ier to a firm of coal merchants, and a Sunday-school teacher in a Church of England school ; about 1849 he adopted radical views, and became a public lec- turer and pamphleteer; in 1868 he became editor of the "Investigator/* and after- wards projected the "National Reformer," of which he became the editor; chosen M.P. for Northampton in 1880, and again, in 1881, but has not been permitted to take his seat; resident in St. John's Wood, London.

Bradley, Rev. Edward, B.A., 1827-. Cuthbert Bede. An English Epis. divine, and miscellaneous writer; b. at Kidder- minster ; Univ. Coll., Durham, 1848 ; Rec- tor of Stretton, Oakham, 1871-83 et seq.

Bradley, Miss Harriett Mary. Ma- rietta. An English writer.

Bradley, T. Waldron. Shelsley Beauchamp. An English writer.

Bradley, Mrs. Thomas. Hannah Cook.

Bradley, Warren Ives, 1847-68. Glance Gaylord. A gifted young Amer- ican author. Within a space of three

or four years he gave to the public 13 books, besides numerous articles for papers and magazines, liis " Culm Rock" took a prize of $350, over 72 competitors. D. at Bristol, Conn.

Bradley, William A Reined Guar- dian. An English writer

Bradshaw, Hon. Mary Ann Caven- dish. Pnscilla Parlante An Irish bi- ographer and novelist; wife of the Hon. Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, M.P. for Castle-Riding. She was the daughter of James St. John Jeffereyes, Esq, of Blarney Castle, County Cork ; was mar- ried in 1784 to the Earl of Westmeath, from whom she was divorced in 1790, when she married Mr. Cavendish Brad- shaw.

Brady, Jaines Topham, 1815-69. Query An American lawyer; b in New York City ; admitted to the bar in 1835, and became distinguished for abil- ity, legal learning, and eloquence ; d. in New York City.

Brae, Andrew Edmund. A Detec- tive. An English writer, of Leeds.

Bragg, H. A. Braganza. An Amer- ican novelist.

Bragg, Jane. J. B An English poet and prose writer.

Bragge, Francis. A Physician in Hertfordshii e; A Gentleman of Cambridge. An English clergyman and 'poet ; Vicar of Hitchin, and Prebendary of Lincoln.

Braham, John, 1774-1850. B. An English singer; b. in London; for 40 years, from 1801, his powers continued unimpaired, and he occasionally ap- peared in public till bis death. D. in London.

Braley, A. B, A. B. B. An Ameri- can Shakespeare scholar, of Madison, Wis.

Bramley, H E. H. E. Yelwarb. An English writer.

Branch, Thomas. T. B. An Eng- lish law-writer, of the last century.

Brande, William Thomas, 1788- 1866. D. C. L.; A Relative. An emi- nent English chemist; b. in London; Professor of Chemistry in the Royal In- stitution, 1813-25; Superintendent of the Die Department, Royal Mint, 1825-60; d. at Tunbridge Wells.

Braman, William Penn, 1825-66. Vandyke Brown. An American poet- painter, of Chicago; b. in Cincinnati; self -instructed as a scholar and as an artist ; d. in his native city,

Brannlgan, Larry 1836-. Lawrence Barrett. An American actor ; b. in New York City ; served in the late civil war