Name John Braddocke Grandchildren Rosemarie DeWitt | Role Boxer Movies The Super Fight | |
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Died November 29, 1974, North Bergen, New Jersey, United States Spouse Mae Braddock (m. 1930–1974) Children Jay Braddock, Rosemarie Braddock, Howard Braddock Similar People Max Baer, Joe Louis, Joe Gould, Primo Carnera, Max Schmeling | ||
Life
Braddocke was a native of Shropshire, and received his education at St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship (B.A. 1674, M.A. 1678). On leaving the university about 1689, he became chaplain to Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet, of Dean, near Canterbury, and chaplain to Dr. John Battely, rector of the neighbouring parish of Adisham. In 1694 he was nominated by Archbishop Tenison to the perpetual curacy of Folkestone, and on 1 April 1698 he was presented to the vicarage of St. Stephen's, alias Hackington, near Canterbury. On the promotion of Dr. Offspring Blackall, his contemporary at college and close friend, to the see of Exeter in 1707, Braddocke was made the bishop's chaplain, though he got nothing by the appointment except the title. In 1709 he was collated by Archbishop Tenison to the mastership of Eastbridge hospital in Kent. He died in his vicarage house on 14 August 1719, in his sixty-fourth year.