Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt Biography

British diplomat and writer

Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt ICS FRGS (25 June 1874 – 11 June 1963) was a British diplomat and writer.

Biography

He began his career as an English member of the Indian Civil Service. His duty in India began in 1896, and he started as an *istant magistrate and collector. He was originally *igned to Khulna, Midnapore, Hooghly and Calcutta. At some point he was re-*igned to the commander-in-chief in India, and later served in the British legation in Tehran. Bradley-Birt wrote both fiction and non-fiction about his travels in India, Persia and the Middle East. In India he was attached to the Archaeological service, and this formed the basis for some of his non-fiction work. He wrote under his own name and under the pseudonym "Shelland Bradley."

Ramananda Chatterjee credited Bradley-Birt with "resuscitating" the literary study of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

Bradley-Birt married (1 December 1920) Lady Norah Beatrice Henriette Spencer-Churchill Of Marlborough , daughter of George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (she was, therefore, a cousin of Winston Churchill).

Bradley-Birt owned a property known as Birtsmorton Court, which he acquired from his uncle, F. R. Bradley-Birt, who bought it in 1911, re-uniting it with the neighboring property of Berrow, which was already under his ownership.

Works

  • Through Persia, from the gulf to the Caspian (1909)
  • Persia; through Persia from the Gulf to the Caspian (1910)
  • Bengal fairy tales (1920) (with illustrations by Abanindranath Tagore)
  • Chota Nagpore, a little-known province of the empire (1903)
  • The story of an Indian upland (1905)
  • The romance of an eastern capital (1906)
  • Twelve men of Bengal in the nineteenth century (1910)
  • 'Sylhet' Thackeray (1911)
  • Poems of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio:: a forgotten Anglo-Indian (1923)

Written under pseudonym

  • The Doings of Berengaria (1902)
  • An American Girl in India (1907)
  • The Adventures of an A.D.C. (1910)
  • An American Girl at the Durbar (1912)
  • Fifty (1927)

References

    External links

    • Works by or about Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt at Wikisource
    • Who Was Who among English and European Authors (1931–49)
    • The Indian Civil Service 1601–1930. Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley. J. Murray 1931. p.:299.

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