Background
He was the son of Robert Bradstreet, and was born at Higham, Suffolk, in 1766, and educated under the care of the Review T. Foster, rector of Halesworth in Suffolk.
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Robert Bradstreet
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Street John"s College.
Career
On 4 June 1782 he was admitted a pensioner of Saint John"s College, Cambridge, and he became a fellow-commoner of that society on 23 January 1786. The dates of his degrees are Bachelor of Arts 1786, Master of Arts 1789. Bradstreet owned an estate at Bentley in Suffolk, with a mansion called Bentley Grove, which, it is believed, he inherited from his father.
He lived abroad for several years, witnessing many of the scenes of the French revolution, which he at one time advocated.
Foreign some time he lived at Higham Hall, Raydon, but removing thence, he resided at various places, and at length died at Southampton on 13 May 1836. He was the author of The Sabine Farm, a poem: into which is interwoven a series of translations, chiefly descriptive of the Villa and Life of Horace, occasioned by an excursion from Rome to Licenza, London, 1810, Octavo.
There are seven engraved plates in the work, and an appendix contains "Miscellaneous Odes from Horace.".
