Bradley, Thomas

Title

Prof

First name(s)

Thomas

Surname

Bradley

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Lecturer of Geometrical Drawing, 1838-1848
• Professor of Geometrical Drawing, 1848-1869

Education & professional details

Position(s) held (non King's College London) ^Ref: *2

• Superintendent of the Royal College of Practical Science, 1838
• Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1855

 

Publications ^{Refs: *4 *5 *7}

Elements of Practical Geometry, 1836 (publisher unknown)

Practical Geometry, Linear Perspective and Projection, London: Baldwin and Craddock, 1834 (has the following note on the front page ‘Published under the Superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge’)

Lecture on Practical Plane and Descriptive Geometry, mechanical and machine drawing, and building construction London: G. E. Eyre & W. Spottiswoode, 1860

Elements of Geometrical Drawing or Practical Geometry, Plane and Solid Including both Orthographic and Perspective Projection, two volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 1861

Personal details

Date of birth ^Ref: *1

2nd February 1799

Place of birth ^Ref: *1

Westminster, London

Date of death

1869

Place of death

Greenwich, London.

Family details

Father Edward Bradley; Mother Elizabeth; Sister Elizabeth (b1808); Wife Charlotte Ann Berkeley (b1799 Oundle, Northamptonshire) married on 10th April 1829 at Old Church, St. Pancras, London; Daughter Grace E. Bradley (b1830); Son Frederick Alfred Bradley (b1835).

Notes ^{Refs: *6 *7}

• Thomas Bradley was christened on 28th April 1799 at St. Anne's Church, Soho, London
• Residence in 1838 Rose Cottage, Kentish Town, London (KA/IC/B16).
• In 1861, residence was 2, Sunfield Terrace, Greenwich, London
• Thomas Bradley was the first one to give lectures on Descriptive Geometry during the 1839-1841 sessions at the Engineering Department of Kings College, London. These lectures were also part of the syllabus of architecture at King's
• Occupation in the 1861 census was listed as ‘Civil Service Master Royal Marines Academy, Woolwich
• Lectured on 16th April 1860 on Geometrical Drawing
• Gave Science Lectures at South Kensington Museum, 1870