About Joseph Bradford
Lived 1748 – 1808 (aged 59–60). Joseph Bradford was a British preacher.
Joseph Bradford (174828 May 1808) was a British preacher and travelling companion of John Wesley.
Life Bradford was John Wesley's travelling companion 1774–1780 and again 1787–1790. Wesley entrusted Bradford with transcribing his Journal and in 1785 also entrusted him with a letter to be read to the Conference after Wesley's death.
Bradford was twice President of the Methodist Conference in 1795 and 1803. Bradford served as the first governor of Kingswood School from 1795 to 1802.
Bradford suffered a severe paralysing stroke some months before his death in 1808.
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Joseph Bradford was born in 1748.
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Joseph Bradford died on 28 May 1808 in Kingston upon Hull.
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Joseph Bradford was a preacher.
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Joseph Bradford was British.
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