Francis herbert bradley biography of christopher columbus

English philosopher (1846–1924)

Francis Herbert BradleyOM (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealistphilosopher. His most important work was Appearance and Reality (1893).^[4]

Life

Bradley was born at Clapham, Surrey, England (now part of the Greater London area).

He was the child of Charles Bradley, an evangelicalAnglican preacher, and Emma Linton, Charles's second wife. A. C. Bradley was his brother. Educated at Cheltenham College and Marlborough College, he read, as a teenager, some of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

In 1865, he entered University College, Oxford. In 1870, he was elected to a fellowship at Oxford's Merton College where he remained until his death in 1924.^[5] Bradley is buried in Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.

Francis herbert bradley biography of christopher columbus book

During his life, Bradley was a respected philosopher and was granted honorary degrees many times. He was the first British philosopher to be awarded the Order of Merit. His fellow