Life
Bradley was born at Park Hill, Clapham, Surrey, the youngest son of the twenty-one children of the preacher Charles Bradley (1789–1871). Among his siblings was the philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He obtained a Balliol Fellowship in 1874 and lectured first in English and subsequently in philosophy till 1881. He then took a permanent position at the University of Liverpool where he lectured in literature. In 1889 he moved to Glasgow as Regius Professor. In 1901 he was elected to the Oxford professorship of poetry and during his five years in the post produced Shakespearean Tragedy (1904) and Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909). He was made an honorary fellow of Balliol and was awarded honorary doctorates from Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Durham, and was offered (but declined) the King Edward VII chair at Cambridge. Bradley never married, he lived in London with his sister and died at 6 Holland Park Road, Kensington, London, on 2 September 1935. His will established a research fellowship for young scholars of English Letters.
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