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RADFORD, ROBERT; b.; adm.; BB 1670-1 (Chapter Muniments 33703-4).

Radford, Miles Colbeck, brother of Herbert D. H. Radford (q.v.); b. Nov. 23, 1897; adm. May 4, 1911 (G); left July 1915; served in Great War I; Lieut. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; managing director of Colbeck Radford and Co. Ltd., dealers in MSS.; Flying Officer (A. and S.D.) R.A.F.V.R. Sept. 13, 1940; Flight Lieut. March 1, 1942; m. Aug. 11, 1930, Phyllis Isabel, second daughter of Sydney E. Preston, of Hampstead.

Radford, James; son of Joseph Radford, Red Bank Foundry, Salford, iron founder, and Elizabeth Caroline Harvey ; b. Salford, Lancs., c.1810 ; landscape painter (already described as such in 1851 Census) ; Drawing Master Jan 1866 – Aug 1884 ; described by Sir Charles Fortescue-Brickdale (qv) as “a fine old fellow named Radford – over 6ft. high and broad in proportion – with one of the immense beards that those who could grow them delighted to display … a competent artist in water-colour .. also a quarter-master sergeant in the Artists Rifles” (Elizabethan, July 1939, 378) ; also taught at a school in Kensington and at Hyde Park College for Ladies ; living at 16 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, Kensington, Middlesex, by 1851 (still there, widower, aged 61, 1871 Census, aged 70, 1881 Census, and aged 81, 1891 Census) ; m. 15 Jun 1844 Charlotte Ella, dau. of Robert Rickards MP, EICS Bombay, later East India merchant in London ; d. 24 Dec 1894.

Radford, Herbert Daniel Hardcastle, son of Herbert George Radford, by Dora, daughter of Nicholas Hardcastle, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, surgeon; b. Jan. 10, 1894; adm. May 2, 1907 (G); left July 1911; a chartered ship-broker; served in Great War I; enlisted in the Queen's Westminster Rifles; Lieut. 3rd Batt. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry Feb. 17, 1916; wounded; Pilot Officer (A. and S.D.) R.A.F.V.R. June 19, 1940; Flying Officer June 19, 1931; Flight Lieut.; m. Sept. 12, 1936, Nancy Archbold, eldest daughter of Alan Neill, of Prestwick, Lancs.

Radford, George Lawrence, son of Sir George Heynes Radford, M.P., of Ditton Hill, Surrey, solicitor, by Emma Louise, daughter of Daniel Radford, of Tavistock, Devon; b. Aug. 10, 1889; adm. April 30, 1903 (R); left Easter 1904.

Radford, Brian Nicholas, brother of Herbert D. H. Radford (q.v.); b. May 25, 1899; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (G); left July 1917; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R.A.F. April 3, 1918; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. April 25, 1939; Flying Officer Aug. 27, 1939; Flight Lieut. Dec. 1, 1941; served in the Middle East 1939-42 and Far East 1943-5.