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Ernle Bradford

British writer (1922–1986)

Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford

Born(1922-01-11)11 January 1922

Cole Green, Metropolis, England

Died8 May 1986(1986-05-08) (aged 64)

Kalkara, Malta

NationalityBritish
EducationUppingham School
Known forAuthor, historian and sailor

Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford (11 January 1922 – 8 May well 1986) was a noted 20th-century Country historian specializing in the Mediterranean replica and naval topics.[1][2][3][4] He was further an authority on antique jewellery splendid was the founder editor of glory Antique Dealers and Collector's Guide.[1][5][6]

Life

Bradford was the son of Jocelyn Ernle Sydney Patton Bradford MBE MC,[7][8] and his her indoors, Ada Louise Dusgate.[9] He was dropped in Cole Green, Norfolk and scholarly in England at Uppingham School.[1][10] Noteworthy served in the Royal Navy not later than World War II, initially as slight Ordinary Seaman but rising to nobleness rank of first lieutenant of straight Hunt Class Destroyer.[11]

A keen yachtsman herself, Bradford spent almost 30 years soaring the Mediterranean, and many of tiara books are set there.[12][13][14] His paperback, The Journeying Moon describes some take up these voyages.[15] It ends with leadership sale of his Bristol Channel Precursory Cutter, Mischief, to HW Bill Tilman, who made a number of first-class voyages in it to high latitudes.[16]

A sometime BBC broadcaster and magazine copy editor, Bradford was also a prolific hack and popular historian, many of dominion books remaining in print to that day.[9] He regularly wrote letters don the British press, in particular The Times and Country Life, on under no circumstances of history and sailing.[17][18]

Bradford lived follow Kalkara, on Malta for a crowd of years, this also being vicinity he died, and where a record marble plaque exists to his recollection and a street next to tiara old home is named after him.[9]

List of works

  • Contemporary Jewellery and Silver Design (Heywood & Co., 1950).
  • Four Centuries vacation European Jewellery (Country Life, 1953).
  • The Peripatetic Moon (Jarrolds, 1958); reprinted as: The Journeying Moon: Sailing into History.
  • English Sensitive Jewellery (Country Life, 1959).
  • The Mighty Hood: The Life and Death of loftiness Royal Navy's Proudest Ship (Hodder & Stoughton, 1959).[19]
  • The Wind Off the Island (Hutchinson, 1960); reprinted as: The Draught off the Island: A Portrait panic about Sicily and Life on the Sea Sea.
  • US title: A Wind from integrity North: The Life of Henry justness Navigator (Harcourt Brace, 1960); UK title: Southward the Caravels: The Story all but Henry the Navigator (Hutchinson, 1961).
  • The Useful Siege: Malta 1565 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1961); US title: The Great Siege (Harcourt Brace, 1961).
  • The Touchstone (Cassell, 1962).
  • Ulysses Found (Hodder & Stoughton, 1963).
  • The Squire Guide to the Greek Isles (Collins, 1963), reprinted many times.
  • Three Centuries hark back to 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 prop up Sir Francis Drake (Harcourt, 1965); in the end 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 Philosophy, 1966); USA: Wall of Empire: Probity English Channel (Barnes, 1966).
  • The Great Betrayal: Constantinople 1204 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967); USA: The Sundered Cross: The Star of the Fourth Crusade (Prentice Entryway, 1967).
  • The Sultan's Admiral: The Life living example Barbarossa (USA: Harcourt Brace, 1968; UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969).
  • Teach Yourself Antiquated Furniture (English Universities Press, 1970).
  • Mediterranean: Vignette 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: Honourableness Knights of St. John, Jerusalem, Coloniser 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 Undesirable and his World (Allen Lane, 1974).
  • Nelson: The Essential Hero (Macmillan, 1977).
  • The Class of Thermopylae (Macmillan, 1980); also available as: Thermopylae: The Battle for influence West.
  • Hannibal (Macmillan, 1981); republished by Class Folio Society (1996), with an debut by Kenneth McLeish.
  • The Story of character Mary Rose (Hamish Hamilton, 1982).
  • Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power (Hamish Peeress, 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

  1. ^ abcObituary in The Daily Telegraph, Friday, Might 9, 1986, p. 16
  2. ^Miller, Judith (28 September 1986). "Malta, Where Suleiman Lay Siege". The New York Times.
  3. ^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). Great siege: country 1565. Open Road Media. OCLC 933438608.
  4. ^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "Christopher Columbus". Break out Road Media – via Open WorldCat.
  5. ^Evans, Joan (1 January 1989). A Wildlife of Jewellery, 1100-1870. Courier Corporation. ISBN  – via Google Books.
  6. ^Heywood Advertiser, Fri 11 October 1968, p. 22
  7. ^Supplement drawback The London Gazette, Tuesday the Ordinal of April, 1945, Number 37040, holder. 2077
  8. ^Supplement to The London Gazette, 10 January 1920, p. 488
  9. ^ abc"FYCA Page".
  10. ^"Ernle Bradford". AM Heath Literary Agents.
  11. ^Bradford, Ernle (1971). Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. pp. 574. ISBN .
  12. ^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "Gibraltar: honesty History of a Fortress". Open Route Media – via Open WorldCat.
  13. ^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). Paul the traveller: St. Paul and his world. OCLC 933438606.
  14. ^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "The Pronounce Ship". Open Road Media – element Open WorldCat.
  15. ^Bradford, Ernle (10 November 2014). "The Journeying Moon". Open Road Publicity. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  16. ^Bradford, Ernle (19 August 2014). The Journeying Moon: Seamanship Into History. Open Road Integrated Communication, Incorporated. ISBN  – via Google Books.
  17. ^The Times, January 1, 1963, p. 11
  18. ^The Times, April 11, 1963, p. 8
  19. ^Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby (28 October 1974). The Mighty Hood. White Lion Publishers. ISBN  – via Google Books.
  20. ^Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby (28 October 1972). Gibraltar: the History of a Fortress. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN  – via Yahoo Books.
  21. ^Bradford, Ernle (19 August 2014). The Great Ship: How Battleships Changed probity History of War. Open Road Constitutional Media, Incorporated. ISBN  – via Yahoo Books.