John Bradley was a sixteenth-century cleric who served as the last abbot of Milton Abbey, before becoming the only suffragan Bishop of Shaftesbury.
A Benedictine monk, he was elected the abbot of Milton Abbey, Blandford Forum, Devon in 1525.The Abbey of Milton. A History of the County of Dorset (1908): Volume 2, pp. 58-62. Accessed 22 November 2008. At the dissolution of the monasteries, he surrendered the abbey to King Henry VIII on 11 February 1539.Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14 Part 1: January-July 1539. Accessed: 22 November 2008. He was appointed the suffragan Bishop of Shaftesbury in February and consecrated on 23 March 1539.Date of incumbency
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