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F. H. Bradley Philosopher

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Jan 30, 1846
  • Died: Sep 18, 1924

Francis Herbert Bradley, OM, (30 January 1846 - 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.

Bradley was born at Clapham, Surrey, England (now part of the Greater London area). He was the child of Charles Bradley, an evangelical 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 Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In 1865 he entered the University College, Oxford. In 1870, he was elected to a fellowship at Oxford's Merton College where he remained until his death in 1924. Bradley is buried in Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.

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