Author: Bradburn, R.
Biography:
BRADBURN, R. (fl 1819)
One of the poems in his book is “To the Memory of Mr. S. Bradburn.” This was Samuel Bradburn (1751-1816), a prominent Methodist preacher in Chester. Alexander Kilham’s Methodist Monitor (1796) introduces R. Bradburn’s poem, “A Dialogue Between the Octagon and Trinity Chapels in Chester,” by describing the author as Samuel Bradburn’s brother. If so, he was one of thirteen children born to Samuel Bradburn (1719-94) and his wife Ann Jones of Wrexham. (ODNB gives his father’s name as Isaac but that was his grandfather.) No birth record has been found and he, like Samuel, may have been born in Gibraltar where his father was stationed with his regiment. R. Bradburn was a Methodist. The introduction to his book states that some of his poems had previously been printed in Chester newspapers. No other information has been located and his first name is not known. Another of his poems memorialises John Bowden (q.v.). (ODNB [for Samuel Bradburn] 24 June 2023; Alexander Kilham, Methodist Monitor [1796]; S. Bradburn and Eliza Weaver Bradburn, Memoirs of the Late Rev. Samuel Bradburn [1816]) SR