BRADELEY, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

BRADFORD, JOHN, of Cheshire; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) c. 1650 (Dormitory tablet); Brasenose Coll. Oxford, adm. 1652/3, aged 19, matr. 9 Dec 1653; BA 1657; MA 1660; DD (Cambridge) 1671; Master, Camberwell GS, 1661-74; ordained; Rector of St. Edmund the King, London, from 17 Feb 1669/70; Rector of Sefton, Lancs., 1675-8; Vicar of Bexhill, Sussex, from 1678; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; about 1682 he petitioned the King for a prebend at Westminster, stating that he had been a King’s Scholar (CSP Dom); Prebendary of Canterbury from Oct 1685; buried Canterbury Cathedral 12 Dec 1685.

BRADSHAW, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1630, adm. scholar 1631, matr. Easter 1631.

BRATTELL, THOMAS, brother of Daniel Brattell (qv); b. 25 Mar 1637 [but date must be wrong, check]; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1648-9; adm.; BB in 1650; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 8 Dec 1658, Westminster Student; BA 22 Mar 1661/2; MA 1664; ordained; Usher, Magdalen Coll. Sch., Oxford, 9 Mar 1662/3 -4; d. unm. 23 May 1703.

BRAY, SIR EDWARD, younger son of Reginald Bray FSA, Shere, Surrey, solicitor, and Frances, sister of Charles Longman (qv); b. 19 Aug 1849; adm. (G) 25 Sep 1863; QS (Capt. ) 1864; Capt. of the School 1867; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1868, adm. pens. 21 Sep 1868, matr. Mich. 1868; BA 1873; played cricket for Cambridge 1871-2, and for Surrey 1870-3, 1878; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Nov 1870, called to bar 7 Jun 1875; South-Eastern circuit; County Court Judge, Birmingham, Dec 1905-8; Additional Judge, London Metropolitan Courts, 1908-11; County Court Judge, Bloomsbury, 1911-23, Dorking and Redhill from 1923; knighted 18 Feb 1919; author, Principles and Practice of Discovery, 1884; m. 22 Jul 1873 Edith Louisa, dau. of Rev. Thomas Hubbard, Newbury; d. 19 Jun 1926.

BRENT, CHARLES, son of Daniel Brent, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London, woollen draper, and Jane, dau. of William Stobart, Richmond, Surrey; bapt. 9 Jan 1682/3; adm.; KS 1696; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1701, matr. 4 Jul 1701, aged 18, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1701, Tutor 1712-5, Junior Censor 1712-3, Librarian 1713 (but degraded for one year for neglect of studies, 24 Dec 1706); BA 1705; MA 24 Mar 1707/8; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1708, priest (Winchester) 18 Jun 1709; Rector of Heythrop, Oxfordshire, from 1714; d. 17 Jan 1722.

BRERETON, ROBERT, brother of Owen Salusbury-Brereton (qv); b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1728; KS 1731; left 1735; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Nov 1735, scholar 6 May 1737, matr. 1735; LLB Lambeth 1750; ordained; [Chaplain, 45th Foot 11 Jan 1740/1 – still 1773 ?]; Vicar of Northop, Flints., from 1747; Perpetual Curate of St. Nicholas’s, Liverpool, 1750 (dispensation to hold with Northop, 1750); d. 5 Oct 1784. [presumably also Chaplain, Royal Navy 1746]

BRETT, THOMAS, son of Arthur Brett, Ghent, Flanders; b.; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1722; Min. Can. 1728; KS 1729.

BRICKENDEN, ALEXANDER; b.; adm.; QS; a pensioner 1564-7 (tutor, Prebendary Wiborne) (Chapter Muniments 54005-54015).

BRIERCLIFFE, SAMUEL, son of Rev. Samuel Briercliffe, Vicar of Darrington, Yorks., and Ann Winkes; b. 30 Jun 1685; adm.; KS 1701; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1705, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1705, scholar 12 Apr 1706, matr. 1705/6; BA 1708/9; ordained deacon 19 Jun 1709, priest 24 Sep 1710 (both London); Curate, Hatfield, Herts.; Chaplain EICS, Fort William, 1713; buried Agra 15 Aug 1717.