Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | |
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Born | Cole Green, Norfolk,
England | 11 January 1922
Died | 8 May 1986 | (aged 64)
Nationality | British |
Education | Uppingham School |
Known for | Author, historian and sailor |
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford (11 January 1922 – 8 May 1986) was a noted 20th-century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. [1] [2] [3] [4] He was also an authority on antique jewellery and was the founder editor of the Antique Dealers and Collector's Guide. [1] [5] [6]
Bradford was the son of Jocelyn Ernle Sydney Patton Bradford MBE MC, [7] [8] and his wife, Ada Louise Dusgate. [9] He was born in Cole Green, Norfolk and educated in England at Uppingham School. [1] [10] He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, initially as an Ordinary Seaman but rising to the rank of first lieutenant of a Hunt Class Destroyer. [11]
A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there. [12] [13] [14] His book, The Journeying Moon describes some of these voyages. [15] It ends with the sale of his Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, Mischief, to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes. [16]
A sometime BBC broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was also a prolific author and popular historian, many of his books remaining in print to this day. [9] He regularly wrote letters to the British press, in particular The Times and Country Life, on matters of history and sailing. [17] [18]
Bradford lived in Kalkara, on Malta for a number of years, this also being where he died, and where a commemorative marble plaque exists to his memory and a street next to his old home is named after him. [9]
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | |
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Born | Cole Green, Norfolk,
England | 11 January 1922
Died | 8 May 1986 | (aged 64)
Nationality | British |
Education | Uppingham School |
Known for | Author, historian and sailor |
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford (11 January 1922 – 8 May 1986) was a noted 20th-century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. [1] [2] [3] [4] He was also an authority on antique jewellery and was the founder editor of the Antique Dealers and Collector's Guide. [1] [5] [6]
Bradford was the son of Jocelyn Ernle Sydney Patton Bradford MBE MC, [7] [8] and his wife, Ada Louise Dusgate. [9] He was born in Cole Green, Norfolk and educated in England at Uppingham School. [1] [10] He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, initially as an Ordinary Seaman but rising to the rank of first lieutenant of a Hunt Class Destroyer. [11]
A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there. [12] [13] [14] His book, The Journeying Moon describes some of these voyages. [15] It ends with the sale of his Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, Mischief, to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of significant voyages in it to high latitudes. [16]
A sometime BBC broadcaster and magazine editor, Bradford was also a prolific author and popular historian, many of his books remaining in print to this day. [9] He regularly wrote letters to the British press, in particular The Times and Country Life, on matters of history and sailing. [17] [18]
Bradford lived in Kalkara, on Malta for a number of years, this also being where he died, and where a commemorative marble plaque exists to his memory and a street next to his old home is named after him. [9]