Augustus Maunsell Bradhurst (1865-1923)
of Rivenhall Place, Essex; Assistant-Adjutant of the Essex Volunteer Regiment
He was born at his family's 18th century ancestral home in New York, Pinehurst. His father moved to Faulkbourne Hall and he was educated at St. Christopher's College, Oxford, where he was a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club. On leaving, he spent several years in South America before his marriage in 1893 to Minna Page Wood ("a most amusing and delightful lady, of great character, and always dressed as though for a Buckingham Palace garden party"), niece of Mrs Katherine (Wood) O'Shea, wife of the "Uncrowned King of Ireland" Charles Stewart Parnell. They took up residence at Rivenhall Place in Essex that her grandfather had bought in 1858. Described as, "a genial and liberal gentleman," Bradhurst was a Lieutenant and Assistant-Adjutant in the Essex Volunteer Regiment during World War I and for sixteen years was Churchwarden at Rivenhall. In 1910, he privately published "My Forefathers, their History from Records & Traditions". He and his wife were survived by one daughter, Christine, aka "Heaven".
