G. F. Bradby


Godfrey Fox Bradby was a schoolmaster at Rugby School, who also had a wide-ranging literary career. He wrote poems, novels, literary criticism and hymns.

Life and career

Born 1863, the son of Revd. Edward Henry Bradby and his wife, Ellen Johnson. He grew up at Haileybury College, where his father was headmaster. He attended Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he gained a First in Classical Moderations in 1884 and a Second in Literis Humanioribus in 1886. From 1887 until his retirement in 1920, he taught at Rugby.

Books

Notable among his books are: