ASTRONOMY IN WANSTEAD. l6l 



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 liuried 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 subsecjuently 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, 1S32. 



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 Societ}-, 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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