Joseph Bradney

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Joseph Alfred Bradney
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Bradney as a lieutenant of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Militia in 1885.
Born (1859-01-11)11 January 1859
Greet, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire, England
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Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch Flag of the British Army.svg British Army
Years of service 1882–1918 (36 years)
Rank Colonel
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Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, CB DL JP FSA (11 January 1859 – 21 July 1933) was a British soldier, historian and archaeologist, best known for his multivolume A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time.

Life

Joseph Bradney was born at Greet, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] He acquired, partly by inheritance and partly purchase, Tal-y-coed Court,[lower-alpha 1] an estate at Talycoed, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, near Monmouth, where he settled at an early age.[3] He entered the army, serving as captain of the Royal Monmouth Royal Engineers Militia from 1882 to 1892, and lieutenant-colonel commanding the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment from 1892 to 1912.[2] In the Territorial Force Reserve from 1912 to 1919, he served in France in 1917–18.[lower-alpha 2][4]

Bradney was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1889, Deputy lieutenant of the county, and a county councillor from 1898 to 1924.[5] 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 the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. He was appointed a Companion of the Bath in 1911, and knighted in 1924.[4][6]

He wrote extensively on the history of Monmouthshire, his major work being A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time, published in twelve volumes between 1904 and 1933.[7][8] A final 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 remains] a basic reference work essential for the serious study of local history or genealogy in Monmouthshire." He shared an interest in vulgar limericks with the antiquarian Egerton Phillimore though Bradney's letters to Phillimore were often written in Latin.[9]

He was married twice, first to Rosa Jenkins (d. 1927), and then to Florence Prothero.[6] A Latin tablet in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern records his achievements.[10]

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

A History of Monmouthshire

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Main article: A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time

Bradney's History comprised twelve volumes, divided by the traditional administrative areas of Hundreds. The work covered six of the seven hundreds of Monmouthshire.

  • Volume I Part 1, The Hundred of Skenfrith, (1904) OCLC 896129125[11]
  • Volume I Part 2, The Hundred of Abergavenny, (1906), OCLC 895940655[12]
  • Volume II Part 1, The Hundred of Raglan, (1911), OCLC 895940653[13]
  • Volume II Part 2, The Hundred of Trelech, (1913), OCLC 895939552[14]
  • Volume III Part 1, The Hundred of Usk, (1921) OCLC 502610834[15]
  • Volume III Part 2, The Hundred of Usk, (1923), OCLC 502610826[16]
  • Volume IV Part 1, The Hundred of Caldicot, (1929), OCLC 896116356[17]
  • Volume IV Part 2 The Hundred of Caldicot, (1932), OCLC 502610829[18]
  • Four volumes consisting of a List of Subscribers, Addenda and Corrigenda, and Indices of Names and Places.[19]

Between 1991 and 1993, the history was reprinted by Academy Books, and subsequently the Merton Priory Press, as an 80% sized facsimile. The work was arranged slightly differently to the original history, the indices were included in their respective Parts, and a fifth volume covering the last Hundred of Newport, was compiled from Bradney's manuscript notes by Dr Madeleine Gray. The re-ordered works were:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Tal-y-coed estate was inherited from his mother, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hopkins, of Ty Isha, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, Monmouthshire's only Lord Mayor of London.[2]
  2. ↑ Bradney's youngest son, Walter, was killed at Peronne during the German Spring Offensive in early 1918.[4]

References

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  3. ↑ Davies 1986, p. 7.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gray 1993, p. viii.
  5. ↑ Gray 1993, p. vii.
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  7. ↑ Davies 1986, p. 3.
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