Sir John Rose Bradford, 1st Baronet (7 May 1863 – 7 April 1935) was a British physician.

Early life

John Rose Bradford was born in

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, the son of Abraham Rose and Ellen (née Ltttleton) Bradford. His father was a Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in the Royal Navy. He was educated at University College School and in Bruges, before studying for a degree at University College and qualifying as a doctor in 1883.

Career

After serving as a house physician in

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he was made an Assistant Physician in 1889 and then moved to hold the same position at the

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from 1893 to 1896. His main interest was physiological research on such subjects as the electrical phenomena accompanying secretion, the action of drugs on the circulation and secretion of the kidney, and the innervation of various blood vessels. In 1894 he was elected a

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and in 1898 published ''Clinical Lectures on Nephritis''. In 1895 he was made Professor-Superintendent of the Brown Institution, a post which he occupied for eight years. In the same year he was appointed to the Professorship of Material Medica at University College, later becoming Professor of Medicine and Holme Lecturer on clinical medicine. In 1897 he was promoted to full Physician at University College Hospital after which his duties became more administrative. He chaired a number of committees and became Secretary of the

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. After gaining a knowledge of tropical diseases as Physician to the Seamen's Hospital he became Senior Medical Advisor to the Colonial Office from 1912 to 1924. In 1924 he stood unsuccessfully as candidate for the University of London parliamentary seat. He was elected as a fellow of the

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, where he delivered the

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(1898), the

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(1904) and the

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(1920). In 1926 he gave the

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and then served as President of the College from 1926 to 1930. Under his presidency the College celebrated in 1928 the tercentenary of the publication of Harvey’s ''De Motu Cordis''. During the

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he served in France for five years as Consulting Physician to the British Expeditionary Force with the rank of Major-General. Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1911, he was admitted as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1915 and a

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(CBE) in 1919. He was created a

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, of

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in the

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on 26 January 1931.

Personal life

He had married in 1899 Mary Roberts, O.B.E., the daughter of Thomas Ffoulkes Roberts. They had no children. He died in London in 1935.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bradford, John 1st Baronet 1863 births 1935 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 20th-century English medical doctors Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the Order of the Bath Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians Conservative Party (UK) parliamentary candidates

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