Bradbury, Agnew and Co (publishers : active 1872-1969)

Bradbury, Agnew and Co. was founded in 1872 when Frederick Moule Evans (1832-1902) left Bradbury, Evans and Co., the firm he had jointly managed with William Hardwick Bradbury (1832-1892) since 1865 when their fathers, who had founded the firm in 1830 as Bradbury and Evans, retired. The Agnew art dealer family, into which both W. H. Bradbury and his sister, Edith, had married, had brought new capital into Bradbury, Evans and Co. in 1865. This injection of capital saw William Agnew (1825-1910) and his brothers Thomas (b 1827) and John Henry became partners when Bradbury, Agnew and Co. was founded. The new firm continued to publish Punch but ceased publication of books and periodicals.

W. H. Bradbury was chairman of the firm and on his death his son William Laurence Bradbury became joint managing director with William Agnew, W. H. Bradbury's brother-in-law.

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