My thanks to Colin Broughton for his response to my request for information on Major Herbert Bradley Warburton. He sent me a couple of interesting newspaper cuttings and pointed out that the Duke of Buckingham hotel where Herbert was staying in 1939 was in fact run by his father.
Herbert’s parents were Bradley Warburton and Alice Maud Fullock who married in 1914. The 1939 Register shows Bradley as a divorced Hotel Proprietor. As well as Herbert it would seem that Bradley’s mother was also present. They do not belong to a family I have studied previously but I was able to follow the family back through the censuses. They show the family lived in Sheffield and was involved in the cutlery industry. Hopefully they will be documented at some point in the future.
Bradley and Alice were divorced the previous year as the following newspaper cutting shows. Interestingly Alice is also reported to be a hotel manager. She remarried to Douglas Ewart the following year in Croydon.
Bradley’s lover, Betsy Jackson nee Blenkorn, had married Norman Jackson in Sculcoates, Hull in 1935. She married Bradley in the fourth quarter of 1944, but not before she had a son named Michael B Jackson, born in 1943. It is unclear if this was Norman Jackson’s son, or Bradley’s. Betsey was born 15 May 1911 and died in 1979 in Newmarket as a Warburton. Bradley had died there in 1963.
Colin also sent me a cutting describing how Herbert won the Croix de Guerre.
