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Bradford-upon-Avon. [Parish Church. 
ceased December 1710; buried at Bradford. (Reg.Bur.) [From 
this time the presentations were uniformly made by the Patrons 
themselves. ] 
1710, Jon Rogers, M.A.; through the efforts of this Vicar, a School was, in 
January 1712, opened for his poorer Parishioners. Three years 
afterwards, by means of contributions from himself and others, 
and a grant of an old building, then called the ‘ Shull House,’ 
(of which we shall presently give a more particular account) 
the school was placed on a permanent footing, For many 
years before this time (1715) there seems to have been no such 
provision for the education of the children of the poor. See 
above p. 44. 
1754. WatrEer Cuapman, D.D. Prebendary of Bristol, (1740) and Master of St. 
791s 
1793. 
1799. 
1804. 
1808. 
1835. 
John’s Hospital, Bath. His father, Walter Chapman, was Mayor 
of Bath in 1726. His brother John was subsequently elected 
Mayor of Bath seven times; another brother was in 1716 
Rector of Walcot. He was not only a cotemporary and fellow 
collegian, but on terms of close intimacy with Dr. Samuel 
Johnson, Shenstone, and other literary characters. He was 
distinguished for his attainments as a scholar and for his 
eloquence as a preacher. He died at Shirehampton April 25, 
1791, at the age of 80 years. 
Joun AyimeEr, M.A.; second son of the second Baron Aylmer, appointed 
Prebendary of Bristol September, 1750; died at Lower College 
Green, Bristol, 16 November, 1793. 
Frepreric Witt1am Brompere, D.D.; a member of a family long at- 
tached to the Court, and educated in intimate association with 
the children of George III. Early in life he was appointed Chap- 
lain and Secretary to the Prince of Wales (afterwards George 
IV.) and was instituted to the Rectory of Shepton Mallet in 
1787. In 1790 he became a Prebendary of Bristol, and re- 
ceived the living of Bradford from the Dean and Chapter in 
1793. In the year 1808 he was appointed Clerk of the Closet 
to the Prince of Wales, and shortly afterwards was nominated 
a Prebendary of Westminster. He subsequently received the 
Vicarage of Banwell from the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. 
On the death of the Rev. E. Bowles, he was appointed to 
Bradford a second time. He became in 1822 a Canon of St. 
Paul’s, and in 1835 received from that Cathedral the valuable 
living of St. Giles’, Cripplegate, in the Vicarage House of 
which he died March 23, 1847. He was celebrated asa 
musician, and especially as a violincello player. 
Francis RanporrH, D.D. Prebendary of Bristol;—afterwards Vicar 
of Banwell. 
Epwarp Bow.ns, M.A.; previously, Minor Canon of Bristol. 
FrepreriIc WILLIAM BromBere, D.D.; appointed a second time. 
Henry Harvey, M.A. Tutor to H.R.H. the present Duke of Cambridge, 
Canon of Bristol. In 1850 he was appointed Vicar of Olyeston 
in Gloucestershire, where he died Noyember 20, 1854, 
