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societies in Europe ; and a Crown grant of £250 a year was made
to him in 1752 for the important services he had rendered to
navigation.
He married a daughter of Samuel Peach, of Chalford, Gloucester,
and had one daughter, Susannah, who married her cousin, the Rev.
Samuel Peach, after her father's death. This daughter survived her
husband, and, after his death, returned to Greenwich with her only
child, a daughter, who was married to a surgeon at Greenwich,
and, as they died without children, there is no lineal descendant
of Dr. Bradley now living. He died at the age of seventy, on the
13th July, 1762, after much suffering from an internal complaint, in
the house of his wife's brother at Chalford, and was buried in the
churchyard of Minchinhampton, in the same county, with his wife
and mother. An oval brass plate with Latin inscription was affixed
to the altar-tomb. This was subsequently removed after an attempt
had been made to steal it, and was then fixed upon the chancel
wall. He is described as of gentle and unassuming manners, and
very liberal. His portrait by Richardson was given by the Rev. J.
Dallaway to the Royal Society, where it hangs in the library. His
daughter presented the portrait by Hudson to Oxford University
in 1769, and of this a mezzotint was engraved by Faber. This plate
was cut to quarto size, as a frontispiece to Professor Rigaud's edition
of his works, 1832.
After his uncle's death, Dr. Bradley's observations were probably
made with reflecting telescopes, to the construction of which he had
turned his attention, they being so much shorter and more easily
manipulated. The coincidence of the death of Dr. Pound with the
practical disuse of the long refractor in England is the more marked,
as it was he who possessed the greatest skill and patience in its
use. Although the Huygens Telescope was kept at Wanstead till
some four years later, there is no observation recorded with it, and
in the Journal of the Royal Society the following note of its
return is made :
"June 20th, 1728. The Rev. Mr. Bradley, Savilian Professor of Astronomy
at Oxford, delivered to the Society the glass and old furniture of Mr. Huygens'
large telescope, which had been reposited for some years in the hands of his
uncle, the late Mr. Pound, for making Celestial observations. At the same time
he acquainted the Society that, there being no conveniency for his using it since
the pole upon which the glass was erected has been broken, he thought fit to
return it into the hands of the Society, and withal desired the Society to accept of
such new conditions and improvements which his uncle had made to the furniture
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