Joseph Bradney

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Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, FSA, BA, JP, DL (11 January 1859, Greet, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire – 21 July 1933) was a British soldier, historian and archaeologist, best known for his multivolume A History of Monmouthshire.

Life

Joseph Bradney was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He acquired, partly by inheritance and partly purchase, Tal-y-Coed Court, an estate at Talycoed, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, near Monmouth, where he settled at an early age.[2] He entered the army, serving as Captain of the Royal Monmouth Engineer Militia from 1882 to 1892, and Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment from 1892 to 1912. In the Territorial Force Reserve from 1912 to 1919, he served in France in 1917-18.[3]

Bradney was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1889, a county councillor from 1898 to 1924, and an alderman from 1924 to 1928.[2] He was also a Governor and on the Council of the National Library of Wales and the National Museum of Wales. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in Wales. He was appointed a Companion of the Bath in 1911, and knighted in 1924.[2][4]

He wrote extensively on the history of Monmouthshire, his major work being A History of Monmouthshire, published in four volumes comprising 12 parts, from 1904 until 1933.[2][5] A final fifth volume, drawing on his notes, was published posthumously. The books have been described as a "monumental survey, extensively illustrated and containing dozens of pedigrees, [which remain] a basic reference work essential for the serious study of local history or genealogy in Monmouthshire."

He was married twice, first to Rosa Jenkins (d. 1927), and then to Florence Prothero.[4] A Latin tablet in St. Michael's Church at Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern records his achievements.

Works

  • Genealogical memoranda relating to the families of Hopkins of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, Co. Monmouth, and Probyn of Newland, Co. Gloucester, 1889
  • A History of Monmouthshire: From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time, 4 vols, 1904-1933
  • (ed.) The diary of Walter Powell of Llantilio Crossenny in the county of Monmouth, gentleman 1603-1654, 1907
  • (ed.) Llyfr Baglan : or The book of Baglan, by John Williams, London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910
  • A History of the Free Grammar School in the Parish of Llantilio-Crosseny in the County of Monmouh (1924)

References

  1. ↑ "Bradney, Joseph Alfred (BRDY877JA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sir Joseph Bradney, A History of Monmouthshire, ISBN 0-9520009-6-2
  3. ↑ 'BRADNEY, Col Sir Joseph (Alfred)', Who Was Who, A & C Black
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Biography at Welsh Biography Online
  5. ↑ http://arcw.llgc.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=1&coll_id=21&expand=

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