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Dudley Bradstreet 1711-1763
DUDLEY BRADSTREET, fortune hunter and spy, was born in Co Tipperary, a son of landowner John Bradstreet, whose family had received Cromwellian land grants. Raised by a foster family because of his father’s high living, Dudley later attributed his own reckless conduct to being abandoned as a child. Educated in Tipperary and at a boarding school near Templemore, he developed a lifelong interest in card playing. In 1723 he rejoined his family in Dublin, and completed his education at a Latin school in Granard, Co Longford.
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