C. R. Bradish

Charles Richard Bradish (21 April 1884 – 28 July 1961) was an Australian journalist, who mostly published as C. R. Bradish, but also as Caleb Mortimer in The Home and Quinton Davis in The Triad.

History Bradish was born in Ballarat, Victoria, a son of John Richard Bradish (died 7 November 1923) and Susan Doorne Bradish, née Olney (died 1943), who married in 1883.

In 1924 Bradish was appointed associate editor of a reimagined Melbourne Punch, whose first issue appeared on 18 December 1924. The editor was John B. Dalley and staff included Kenneth Slessor and Hugh McCrae. A year later it was absorbed into Table Talk.

In 1933 he was appointed to the Victorian Railways Publicity department. He retired from the Railways, as assistant publicity officer, in February 1948.

Bradish died on 28 July 1961 at Caritas Christi Kew.

Publications As "Caleb Mortimer" In The Home "Melbourne Theatres" review of The Touch of Silk (Betty M. Davies) vol. 10 no. 1 (p. 18) 2 January 1929 "We Have Come to Several Conclusions" (prose humour) vol. 10 no. 7 (p. 50, 87) 1 July 1929 "Cities and Ladies" (prose travel) vol. 14 no. 5 (p. 29, 72) 1 May 1933 "The Most Fetching Woman in London" (prose humour) vol. 14 no. 6 (p. 37, 78) 1 June 1933 "The Real Australian" (prose travel) vol. 14 no. 9 (p. 45) 1 September 1933 also

Story of Alfred Felton

Story of Frederick William Deeming (sic) Story of Hugh McCrae Story of the Archibald Prize

Family On 25 March 1913 Bradish married Ida Louise Mitchell (died 20 May 1965). They had at least one child Robert Richard Bradish (2 July 1918 – ), identified as "salesman" in attestation form They had a home on Bailey Crescent, Rippon Lea, Victoria, and in 1945 lived at 37 Wellington Street, Kew, Victoria.

Percy Albert Bradish (died 21 January 1973), his only sibling, married Eileen Agnes Hickey (died 13 June 1976) in 1914.