Hi, I'm Martyn Bradley but now some people call me Ralph! This isn't an ordinary memoir or tale of lost family. Rumours of my origins involved a pregnant teenager banished to England on a ship in 1949 from what was then The Belgian Congo. My fifty years of searching saw me overcome countless dead-ends, disappointments and periods of lost hope but eventually I unravelled the mystery of my family roots. Since 2012 my blood relatives and I have pieced together the remarkable truth, resulting in my book, The Ralph Story.
In this photograph:
My Grandfather, Principal Dr. Abraham Arthur Wellington and a future Nobel Peace Prize winner among his students.
At Healdtown Methodist Mission School.
Martyn Bradley | Ralph Wellington
Martyn Bradley was born in Yateley in October 1949. Educated initially at Cray Valley and Dartford Technical schools, he trained as a teacher at Bishop Otter College Chichester where he qualified in 1971. He worked in education until 2002 when he took a sideways (and lucrative) move into computer technology, which saw him working both in the UK and the Far East until he retired in 2010. Martyn is best known as a musician, having become one of the finest English concertina players in the country with umpteen album credits over the years. He has a daughter, Abi, and lives with his wife Helen in a beautiful village close to the sea in West Sussex . Martyn also spends much time in South Africa.
