A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

Born in Rugby in 1850, he was the son of George Granville Bradley, later Dean of Westminster. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and spent several years farming in Virginia before returning to England.

That mix of academic background and lived experience shaped much of his writing. He went on to work as a colonial agent in Westminster and became a prolific author, publishing many books from the 1890s into the 1920s. His work included history, biography, and travel writing, with titles on subjects such as Wolfe, the struggle between Britain and France in North America, Old Virginia, North Wales, and the English Lakes.

Bradley died in 1943. He is especially remembered for clear, readable nonfiction that combines a historian’s interest in people and events with a traveler’s eye for place.