Education
University of Cambridge.
University of Cambridge.
Braddocke was a native of Shropshire, and received his education at Saint Catharine"s Hall, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship (Bachelor 1674, Master of Arts 1678). On leaving the university about 1689, he became chaplain to Sir James Oxenden, 2nd Baronet, of Dean, near Canterbury, and chaplain to Doctor John Battely, rector of the neighbouring parish of Adisham. In 1694 he was nominated by Archbishop Tenison to the perpetual curacy of Folkestone, and on 1 April 1698 he was presented to the vicarage of Saint Stephen"s, alias Hackington, near Canterbury.
On the promotion of Doctor Offspring Blackall, his contemporary at college and close friend, to the see of Exeter in 1707, Braddocke was made the bishop"s chaplain, though he got nothing by the appointment except the title.
In 1709 he was collated by Archbishop Tenison to the mastership of Eastbridge hospital in Kent. He died in his vicarage house on 14 August 1719, in his sixty-fourth year.