Thomas Bradock

Thomas Braddock or Bradock (–1607) was an Anglican clergyman of the 16th century, Headmaster of Reading School from 1588 to 1589 and a translator into Latin.

Born in 1556 in Southwark, the son of Thomas Bradoke, Braddock was attending Westminster School by 1570 followed by Greyfriars School. He matriculated as a pensioner from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in June 1573 aged 17. He migrated to Caius College, Cambridge in May 1574 aged 18 before finally taking his degree at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1576-77 aged 20 or 21. He obtained his Master of Arts degree in 1580 and took a Bachelor of Divinity in 1593.

Today Braddock is mostly remembered for his translation into Latin of Apologia pro Ecclesia Anglicana, the confutation in six parts by John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury against the criticisms of the Lollard dissenter Thomas Harding. Braddock's translation was published in Geneva in 1600 and was undertaken that foreign scholars and divines might be able to follow the controversy which Jewel's Apologia had caused since its first publication in 1562. Braddock dedicated his work to John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, ‘who has filled the diocese with learned men’. Braddock is also remembered for having given books from his own library to the library of Christ's College, where he had studied. A book inscribed with Braddock's signature from his library and with marginalia in his own hand was formerly in the Glenn Christodoulou Collection.