Samuel Bradford
| Samuel Bradford | |
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| Bishop of Rochester | |
Nineteenth-century portrait of Bradford (copy by George Perfect Harding)
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Rochester |
| Elected | 1723 |
| Term ended | 1731 (death) |
| Predecessor | Francis Atterbury |
| Successor | Joseph Wilcocks |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Carlisle 1718–1723 Dean of Westminster 1723–1731 |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 1 June 1718 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 December 1652 St. Anne's, Blackfriars |
| Died | 17 May 1731 (aged 78) The Deanery, Westminster |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey |
| Nationality | English (later British) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Residence | The Deanery, Westminster |
| Parents | William Bradford of London |
| Spouse | wife (née Ellis) |
| Children | 2 daughters; 1 son: Revd William |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
Samuel Bradford (20 December 1652 – 17 May 1731) was an English churchman and whig, bishop successively of Carlisle and Rochester.
He was the son of William Bradford of London and was born in St. Anne's, Blackfriars. He was educated at St Paul's School; and when the school was closed, owing to the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, he attended Charterhouse School. He was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1669, but left without a degree in consequence of religious scruples.
He devoted himself for a time to the study of medicine; but he was admitted in 1680, through the favour of Archbishop William Sancroft, to the degree of M.A. by royal mandate. He only took holy orders after the Glorious Revolution of 1689, and in the mean time acted as private tutor in the families of several country gentlemen. Bradford was ordained deacon and priest in 1690, and in the spring of the following year was elected by the governors of St. Thomas's Hospital the minister of their church in Southwark. He soon received the lectureship of St. Mary-le-Bow, and was tutor to the two grandsons of Archbishop John Tillotson, with whom he resided at Carlisle House, Lambeth. In November 1693 Tillotson collated Bradford to the rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow; he then resigned his minor ecclesiastical preferments, but soon after accepted the lectureship of All Hallows, Bread Street.
Bradford was a frequent preacher before the corporation of London, and was a staunch whig. On 30 January 1698 he preached before William III, who that March following appointed Bradford one of the royal chaplains in ordinary. The appointment was continued by Queen Anne, by whose command he was created D.D. on the occasion of her visit to the University of Cambridge, 16 April 1705.
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