The second son of John Bradshaw, of St James’, Bristol; educated at the Westminster and Middlesex Hospitals. He practised at Andover and then at Reading, where he was at one time Vice-President of the Pathological Society and of the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He was also a corresponding Member of the Royal Jennerian Society of London and of the National Vaccine Institute. He matriculated at the University of Oxford on Nov 14th, 1844, being then 43, as a gentleman commoner of New Inn Hall, and was created MA on June 17th, 1847. Whilst he was in residence he became a member of the Oxford University Art Society. He lived at Portland Place, Reading, and died there on Aug 18th, 1866. Bradshaw is described as being a quiet, home-loving, studious man, who diligently cultivated his mind both in literature and in science. Fourteen years after his death the Bradshaw Lectureships were founded by bequests of £1000 to the Royal College of Physicians and a similar sum to the Royal College of Surgeons. The bequests were made by the will of Mrs Sally Hall Bradshaw, dated September 6th, 1875, proved on August 26th, 1880, to institute a lecture to be given annually at each college, and to be called the Bradshaw Lecture. She desired that the lecture should be connected with medicine or surgery, and that the choice of the lecturer should rest with the President of the College for the time being. She made no stringent regulations, and seemed to have wished only to maintain her husband’s name in good repute by associating it with the advancement of the science which he loved, and to testify her gratitude for the happiness which she owed to him. Sir James Paget (qv) delivered the first Bradshaw Lecture on December 13th, 1882 (*Lancet*, 1882, ii, 1017). There is a portrait in Sir Rickman J Godlee’s Bradshaw Lecture for 1907. Publications:- “On the Use of Cod-liver Oil in Chronic Rheumatism.” – *Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1845, 753. “On Chronic Abdominal Abscess.” – *Lancet*, 1846, ii, 529. Various articles over the signature Beta in (Bentley’s ?) *Miscellany* and other periodicals.