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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service/branch
  
British Army

Battles and wars
  
World War I


Name
  
Joseph Bradney

Rank
  
Colonel

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Born
  
11 January 1859 Greet, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire, England (
1859-01-11
)

Commands held
  
2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (1892–1912)

Battles/wars
  
World War I, France 1917-18

Died
  
July 21, 1933, Monmouth, United Kingdom

Education
  
Trinity College, Cambridge

Books
  
A History of Monmouthshire: From the Coming of the Normans Into Wales Down to the Present Time

Years of service
  
1882–1918 (36 years)

Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, CB, FSA, BA, JP, DL (11 January 1859 – 21 July 1933) was a British soldier, historian and archaeologist, best known for his multivolume A History of Monmouthshire.

Contents

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Life

Joseph Bradney was born at Greet, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire, and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He acquired, partly by inheritance and partly purchase, Tal-y-coed Court, an estate at Talycoed, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern, near Monmouth, where he settled at an early age. He entered the army, serving as captain of the Royal Monmouth Engineer Militia from 1882 to 1892, and lieutenant-colonel commanding the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment from 1892 to 1912. In the Territorial Force Reserve from 1912 to 1919, he served in France in 1917-18.

Bradney was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1889, a county councillor from 1898 to 1924, and an alderman from 1924 to 1928. He was also a governor and on the Council of the National Library of Wales and the National Museum of Wales. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. He was appointed a Companion of the Bath in 1911, and knighted in 1924.

He wrote extensively on the history of Monmouthshire, his major work being A History of Monmouthshire, published in four volumes comprising 12 parts, from 1904 until 1933. A final fifth volume, drawing on his notes, was published posthumously. The books have been described as a "monumental survey, extensively illustrated and containing dozens of pedigrees, [which remain] a basic reference work essential for the serious study of local history or genealogy in Monmouthshire."

He was married twice, first to Rosa Jenkins (d. 1927), and then to Florence Prothero. A Latin tablet in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Llanvihangel-Ystern-Llewern records his achievements.

Works

  • Genealogical memoranda relating to the families of Hopkins of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, Co. Monmouth, and Probyn of Newland, Co. Gloucester, 1889
  • A History of Monmouthshire: From the coming of the Normans into Wales down to the present time, 4 vols, 1904-1933
  • (ed.) The diary of Walter Powell of Llantilio Crossenny in the county of Monmouth, gentleman 1603-1654, 1907
  • (ed.) Llyfr Baglan : or The book of Baglan, by John Williams, London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910
  • A History of the Free Grammar School in the Parish of Llantilio-Crosseny in the County of Monmouh (1924)
  • References

    Joseph Bradney Wikipedia