John Bradley (bishop)

Styles of
John Bradley
Reference style The Right Reverend
Spoken style My Lord or Bishop

John Bradley was a sixteenth-century cleric who served as the last abbot of Milton Abbey, before becoming the only suffragan Bishop of Shaftesbury.

A Benedictine monk, he was elected the abbot of Milton Abbey, Blandford Forum, Devon in 1525.[1] At the dissolution of the monasteries, he surrendered the abbey to King Henry VIII on 11 February 1539.[2] He was appointed the suffragan Bishop of Shaftesbury in February and consecrated on 23 March 1539.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ The Abbey of Milton. A History of the County of Dorset (1908): Volume 2, pp. 58-62. Accessed 22 November 2008.
  2. ↑ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14 Part 1: January-July 1539. Accessed: 22 November 2008.
  3. ↑ Date of incumbency
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