Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford | |
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| Born | 11 January 1922 Cole Green, Norfolk, England |
| 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]
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Life
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]
List of works
- Contemporary Jewellery and Silver Design (Heywood & Co., 1950).
- Four Centuries of European Jewellery (Country Life, 1953).
- The Journeying Moon (Jarrolds, 1958); reprinted as: The Journeying Moon: Sailing into History.
- English Victorian Jewellery (Country Life, 1959).
- The Mighty Hood: The Life and Death of the Royal Navy's Proudest Ship (Hodder & Stoughton, 1959).[19]
- The Wind Off the Island (Hutchinson, 1960); reprinted as: The Wind off the Island: A Portrait of Sicily and Life on the Mediterranean Sea.
- US title: A Wind from the North: The Life of Henry the Navigator (Harcourt Brace, 1960); UK title: Southward the Caravels: The Story of Henry the Navigator (Hutchinson, 1961).
- The Great Siege: Malta 1565 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1961); US title: The Great Siege (Harcourt Brace, 1961).
- The Touchstone (Cassell, 1962).
- Ulysses Found (Hodder & Stoughton, 1963).
- The Companion Guide to the Greek Isles (Collins, 1963), reprinted many times.
- Three Centuries of Sailing (Country Life, 1964).
- The America's Cup (Country Life, 1964).
- Drake. A Biography (Hodder & Stoughton, 1965); US edition: The Wind Commands Me: A Life of Sir Francis Drake (Harcourt, 1965); subsequently reprinted as Drake: England's Greatest Seafarer.
- (Editor) The Siege of Malta 1565: Translated from the Spanish Edition of 1568 by Francisco Balbi di Correggio (Folio Society, 1965); reprinted by the Boydell Press, 2011.
- Wall of England: The Channel's 2000 Years of History (Country Life, 1966); USA: Wall of Empire: The English Channel (Barnes, 1966).
- The Great Betrayal: Constantinople 1204 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967); USA: The Sundered Cross: The Story of the Fourth Crusade (Prentice Hall, 1967).
- The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa (USA: Harcourt Brace, 1968; UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969).
- Teach Yourself Antique Furniture (English Universities Press, 1970).
- Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971).
- Gibraltar: The History of a Fortress (Hart-Davis, 1971).[20]
- Cleopatra (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971).
- The Shield and the Sword: The Knights of Malta (HarperCollins, 1972); US edition: The Shield and the Sword: The Knights of St. John, Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta (Dutton, 1973).
- Christopher Columbus (Michael Joseph, 1973).
- The Sword and the Scimitar: The Saga of the Crusades (Victor Gollancz, 1974).
- Paul the Traveller: Saint Paul and his World (Allen Lane, 1974).
- Nelson: The Essential Hero (Macmillan, 1977).
- The Year of Thermopylae (Macmillan, 1980); also published as: Thermopylae: The Battle for the West.
- Hannibal (Macmillan, 1981); republished by The Folio Society (1996), with an introduction by Kenneth McLeish.
- The Story of the Mary Rose (Hamish Hamilton, 1982).
- Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power (Hamish Hamilton, 1984).
- Siege: Malta 1940-1943 (Hamish Hamilton, 1985).
- The Great Ship (Hamish Hamilton, 1986); reprinted as: The Great Ship: How Battleships Changed the History of War.[21]
References
- ^ a b c Obituary in The Daily Telegraph, Friday, May 9, 1986, p. 16
- ^ Miller, Judith (28 September 1986). "Malta, Where Suleiman Laid Siege". The New York Times.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). Great siege: malta 1565. Open Road Media. OCLC 933438608.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "Christopher Columbus". Open Road Media – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ Evans, Joan (1 January 1989). A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486261225 – via Google Books.
- ^ Heywood Advertiser, Friday 11 October 1968, p. 22
- ^ Supplement to The London Gazette, Tuesday the 17th of April, 1945, Number 37040, p. 2077
- ^ Supplement to The London Gazette, 10 January 1920, p. 488
- ^ a b c "FYCA Page".
- ^ "Ernle Bradford". AM Heath Literary Agents.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (1971). Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. pp. 574. ISBN 0-15-158584-9.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "Gibraltar: the History of a Fortress". Open Road Media – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). Paul the traveller: St. Paul and his world. OCLC 933438606.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "The Great Ship". Open Road Media – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "The Journeying Moon". Open Road Media. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (19 August 2014). The Journeying Moon: Sailing Into History. Open Road Integrated Media, Incorporated. ISBN 9781497637917 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Times, January 1, 1963, p. 11
- ^ The Times, April 11, 1963, p. 8
- ^ Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby (28 October 1974). The Mighty Hood. White Lion Publishers. ISBN 9780856171086 – via Google Books.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby (28 October 1972). Gibraltar: the History of a Fortress. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 9780151355501 – via Google Books.
- ^ Bradford, Ernle (19 August 2014). The Great Ship: How Battleships Changed the History of War. Open Road Integrated Media, Incorporated. ISBN 9781497637894 – via Google Books.
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