Dean Bradley, whose death we announced in our last issue,
earned in more ways than one the abiding gratitude of the nation. The debt that he owed to Charles Pritchard, Head- Master of Clapham Grammar School and afterwards Astrono- mer at Oxford, and to Arnold of Rugby, he repaid in kind by his splendid services to Marlborough, where he proved himself an unrivalled teacher and a wise and firm adminis- trator. Dr. Bradley's greatness as a Head-Master is not easily to be estimated. But it may be in part explained by the fact that he was regarded with wholesome respect by the majority, with admiration and affection by the Sixth. At Westminster he was inevitably somewhat overshadowed by the greater personal magnetism of Dean Stanley, but while worthily maintaining the traditions associated with Stanley's tenure of the post, he made good the shortcomings of his predecessors by his unobtrusive achievement of a really great work, the re-establishing of the finances of the Abbey on a firm basis.
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