John Bradley (bishop) explained

Bishop Name:	John Bradley
Dipstyle:	The Right Reverend
Offstyle:	My Lord or Bishop

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.^[1] At the dissolution of the monasteries, he surrendered the abbey to King Henry VIII on 11 February 1539.^[2] He was appointed the suffragan Bishop of Shaftesbury in February and consecrated on 23 March 1539.^[3]

Notes and References

1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40140 The Abbey of Milton
2. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=75851 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14 Part 1: January-July 1539
3. https://archive.org/stream/inmemoriamnathan00bost/inmemoriamnathan00bost_djvu.txt Date of incumbency