Joseph_Bradford_(preacher)

Joseph Bradford (preacher)

Joseph Bradford (preacher)

British preacher and travelling companion of John Wesley

Joseph Bradford (c.1748 – 28 May 1808) was a British preacher and travelling companion of John Wesley.[2]

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Life

Bradford was John Wesley's travelling companion 1774–1780 and again 1787–1790.[3] Wesley entrusted Bradford with transcribing his Journal and in 1785 also entrusted him with a letter to be read to the Conference after Wesley's death.[3] When Wesley was on his deathbed his friend Joseph Bradford was at his side.[4]

Bradford was twice President of the Methodist Conference in 1795 and 1803.[5] Bradford served as the first governor of Kingswood School from 1795 to 1802.[6]

Bradford suffered a severe paralysing stroke some months before his death in 1808.[7]

References

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Birth date varies as calculated after death from 1741 up to 1752 from marriage documents, but Wesley's publication and a letter written on the death of his wife Mary indicate 1748.

Citations

  1. [1]
    1808 Obituary
  2. [2]
    Wakeley p211
  3. [3]
    Vickers
  4. [4]
    Kelly p36
  5. [5]
    Bradford,CA pp34,40
  6. [6]
    Hastling pp84,85,119
  7. [7]
    Dickinson pp407,409

Sources

  • Vickers, John A. "Bradford, Joseph". A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  • "1808 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons". The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 103. 1808. p. 563.
  • Kelly, Charles H, ed. (1891). Wesley and His Successors. London: Charles H Kelly. pp. 35–36. OL 7075665M.
  • Bradford, Charles Angell (1930). The Life of The Rev. Joseph Bradford. London: R. F. Hunger. OL 7558501W.
  • Hastling, A.H.L.; Addington Willis, W.; Workman, W.P. (1898). The History of Kingswood School. London: Charles H Kelly. pp. 84–85, 119. OL 7074813M.
  • Wakeley, Joseph Beaumont (1856). The heroes of Methodism: containing sketches of eminent Methodist ministers, and characteristic anecdotes of their personal history. Carlton & Porter. pp. 209–216. OCLC 645123461.
  • Dickinson, Robert (1825). The life of the rev. John Braithwaite, Wesleyan Methodist Preacher. pp. 407, 409. OCLC 222487365.

Further reading

  • Osborn, George (1869). Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography. OL 6902928M.
  • Lewis, Donald M., ed. (2004). Dictionary of evangelical biography, 1730-1860. Peabody (Mass.): Hendrickson Pub. ISBN 9780801046902.


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