George Bradley (priest)

George Granville Bradley
Photograph of Bradley in 1883.
Religion	Church of England
Personal
Born	11 December 1821
Died	13 March 1903
Senior posting
Title	Dean of Westminster
Period in office	1881-1902
Predecessor	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Successor	Joseph Armitage Robinson

George Granville Bradley (11 December 1821 – 13 March 1903) was an English divine, scholar, and schoolteacher, who was Dean of Westminster (1881–1902).

George Bradley's father, Charles Bradley, was vicar of Glasbury, Brecon, mid Wales.

Bradley was educated at Rugby under Thomas Arnold, and at University College, Oxford, of which he became a Fellow in 1844. He was an assistant master at Rugby from 1846 to 1858, when he succeeded G.E.L. Cotton as Headmaster of Marlborough College in Wiltshire.

In 1870, Bradley was elected Master of his old college at Oxford, and in August 1881 he was appointed Dean of Westminster in succession to Rev. Stanley, whose pupil and intimate friend he had been, and whose biographer he became. By the turn of the century he was in declining health, and had to be absent from his duties for considerable periods. He took part in the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on 9 August 1902, and asked the King to be allowed to resign from his duties later the same month.

Bradley was an Acting Chaplain of the 13th Middlesex (Queen´s Westminsters) Volunteer Rifle Corps for 20 years, and received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration (VD) on 21 February 1902.