{{short description|English cricketer, schoolmaster, and poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox cricketer | name =Henry Christopher | image = | country = England | fullname = Henry Christopher Bradby | birth_date = 28 December 1866 | birth_place = Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1947|6|28|1868|12|28}} | death_place = Ringshall, Hertfordshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | nickname = | family = Edward Bradby (brother)<br>Arthur Chitty (brother-in-law) | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = | club1 = Oxford University | year1 = 1890 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 6 | runs1 = 178 | bat avg1 = 19.77 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 40* | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 5/– | date = 3 February | year = 2020 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9933.html Cricinfo }}
'''Henry Christopher Bradby''' (28 December 1866 – 28 June 1947) was an English first-class cricketer, schoolmaster and poet.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Oxford University Cricketers - A to D |url=https://acscricket.com/wp-content/uploads/Oxford-University-Cricketers-A-D-March-2023.pdf |website=The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |page=29}}</ref>
The son of Edward Bradby senior, the headmaster of Haileybury College, he was born in December 1868 at Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to New College, Oxford.<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Rugby School Register 1874–1904 |first=A. T. |last=Mitchell |date=1904 |volume=2 |publisher=A. J. Lawrence |page=84 |url=https://archive.org/stream/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft/rugbyschoolregis03rugbuoft_djvu.txt |language=en}}</ref>
While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1890, making his debut against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford. He made five further first-class appearances for Oxford in 1890,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28077/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Henry Bradby |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-02-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> scoring 178 runs at an average of 19.77, and with a highest score of 40 not out.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28077/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Henry Bradby |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-02-03 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> After graduating from Oxford in 1891, he became a schoolmaster at Rugby School in 1892. During his tenure at Rugby, Bradby wrote a number of books about the school.<ref name="BOOK" /> During the First World War, he wrote the poem ''April 1918''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poemhunter.com/henry-christopher-bradby/biography/ |title=Henry Christopher Bradby |publisher=www.poemhunter.com |accessdate=2020-02-03}}</ref>
Bradby died in June 1947 at Ringshall, Hertfordshire.
His siblings included the historian Barbara Hammond, the solicitor and cricketer Edward Bradby, and the author Godfrey Bradby. His brother-in-law, Arthur Chitty, was also a first-class cricketer. His son Robert Christopher Bradby married the artist and illustrator Ethel “Bip” Pares.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Books |first=Laurence Worms-Ash Rare |date=2013-09-17 |title=Bip Pares (1904-1977) |url=https://ashrarebooks.com/2013/09/17/bip-pares-1904-1977/ |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=The Bookhunter on Safari |language=en}}</ref>
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