At some point he was re-assigned to the commander-in-chief in India, and later served in the British legation in Tehran.
[1] Bradley-Birt wrote both fiction and non-fiction about his travels in India, Persia and the Middle East.
In India he was attached to the Archaeological service, and this formed the basis for some of his non-fiction work.
Ramananda Chatterjee credited Bradley-Birt with "resuscitating" the literary study of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.
[2] Bradley-Birt married (1 December 1920) Lady Norah Beatrice Henriette Spencer-Churchill Of Marlborough, daughter of George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (she was, therefore, a cousin of Winston Churchill).