Harold William Bradfield (20 September 1898 – 1 May 1960) was an Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1946 to 1960. Harold was born in Lambeth, an only child whose father was a ‘Club and Smoking Room worker. He was at school at Dulwich College, and was 18 when he joined the City of London Yeomanry and the Army Cyclist Corps. He served in France in 1918-19 and, after the Great War ended, he was awarded the Victory and British War Medals. In 1922, he completed a Batchelor of Divinity degree at King's College, London, and was ordained and served in Lancashire as a curate and Vicar of St Mark’s, Heyside. In 1934, he was appointed Secretary of the Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance and in 1942, Archdeacon of Croydon. Bradfield had been considered for bishoprics includin