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William Bradley (Royal Navy officer)
William Bradley (1758–13 March 1833) was a British naval officer and cartographer who was one of the officers who participated in the First Fleet to Australia. During this expedition, Bradley undertook extensive surveys and became one of the first of the settlers to establish relations with the aborigines, with whom he struck up a dialogue and whose customs and nature he studied extensively. He later however fell out with his aboriginal contacts and instead undertook a mission to gather food which ended with an eleven-month stay on Norfolk Island after a shipwreck.
Bradley's later career was overshadowed by his steadily deteriorating mental state. Although a successful small ship commander, Bradley became increasingly erratic and was eventually retired as a result. A few years later, suffering serious mental problems, Bradley committed a highly unusual case of postal fraud and was ultimately exiled. He never returned to Britain but lived in quiet disgrace in France.
==Early career==
Bradley was born in 14 November 1758 in Portsmouth, a great nephew of the Astronomer Royal James Bradley. His family was closely associated with the Royal Naval Academy and both his younger brother James and his father John Bradley served on the faculty. Bradley entered the Royal Navy in 1772, and served on a rapid succession of ships before becoming lieutenant in 1778.〔 He continued in service aboard , , , , , and until 1786, when he joined . His service during the American Revolutionary War was not significant, but Bradley was attached on the ''Sirius'' to the First Fleet destined to colonise Australia.〔(Bradley, William (1757 - 1833) ), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Janet D. Hine, Retrieved 20 January 2008〕
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