Edwin Bradbury was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, England on 16 January 1875 and was articled to George H. Stevenson (1861-?) of Stevenson & Dorman in Northampton from 1891 to 1893. He also attended Northampton School of Art. In 1895 he was employed in the office of William Kaye-Parry (1853-1932) in Dublin, and subsequently worked as his managing assistant until 1905. He attended the Architectural Association of Ireland School in Dublin during these years.
Bradbury commenced independent practice as an architect in Dublin in 1905. He was appointed architect to Pembroke (County Dublin) Urban District Council, and to the Rathmines and Pembroke Joint Hospital Board. From c.1927 to 1939 or later he was in partnership with Robert Edward Evans.
He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Architects (RIAI) in Ireland in 1896 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland (FRIAI) in 1915. He was also a founding member of the Architectural Association in Ireland in 1896 and was its Vice-President in 1906-08 and President in 1908-09 and 1917-18. He died in Terenure, Dublin on 2 April 1948.
Artisans' dwellings, Pembroke (Co. Dublin); business premises: 91 and 93, Lower Georges Street, Kingstown, Rathdowney, and 8, Westmoreland Street, 61, Sth. Great Georges Street, 28-29, Grafton Street, and 61, Upper Sackville Street, Dublin; Pitman Hotel, Birmingham; Victoria Hotel, Kingstown; Commercial Hotel, Rathdowney, &c.; soldiers' homes: The Curragh, Athlone and Newbridge; Golf Club Pavilion, Grange Golf Club; many private houses; tower and spire, Ballyheigue R.C. Church Co. Kerry; Squash Racket Court, Kildare Street Club, Dublin, &c. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
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Soldiers' Homes: Curragh Camp, Newbridge, and Athlone; tower to Roman Catholic Church, Ballyheigue; church edifice for Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Dublin; housing schemes: Pembroke, co. Dublin, 1913; Rathmines, co. Dublin, 1922-23. Alterations to Pitman Hotel, Birmingham, and Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dublin; business premises for: Anderson, Stanford and Ridgeway, Grafton Street, Dublin; Goodson's, Ltd. (of Manchester), Dublin, besides many others in Dublin, Kingston, etc. Domestic work: Additions to Hemingford Grey House, Hunts; alterations, etc., to Drumdoe House, co. Roscommon, and others. Factories: Victors' Cocoa Factory, Liverpool, 1919; Paul and Vincent, Dublin; Ferrln, Pollock and Co., Dublin, etc. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
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For a detailed list of architectural projects by Edwin Bradbury see also the Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940 [link below]
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Who’s Who in Architecture 1914. London Technical Journals Ltd., 1914
Who’s Who in Architecture 1923. edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1923