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Surname	Bradshaw	Alternative Surname
First Name	W, of Manchester	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1735-72
Year of Death
Biographical Details	He signs large wall-tablets to William Lawson, 1735, in Wakefield Cathedral, and to the Massey family, 1765, at Rostherne, Cheshire. (1, 3). Samuel Hibbert, in his History of the Foundations in Manchester, describes Bradshaw’s monument to William Clowes in Manchester Cathedral as ‘a mural monument which for elegance is not exceeded by any one within the church’ (4). Literary References: Hibbert vol II, 1828, 316; Gunnis 1968, 60