Bradley, Henry (1845–1923)

British philologist. His 1884 review of the first instalment of James Murray's New English Dictionary led to him becoming one of its editors in 1889. In 1896 he went to Oxford, where he devoted himself entirely to the dictionary, becoming editor-in-chief on Murray's death in 1915.

His chief original works are The Goths 1888, The Making of English 1904, and English Place-Names 1910. The Collected Papers of Henry Bradley were published in 1928. He was born in Manchester.