Herbert Edwin Bradley (December 20, 1871 – April 22, 1961) was a Canadian-born American lawyer, real estate investor, big-game hunter and zoo director.

Bradley took his family to the Belgian Congo in 1921 as part of Carl Ethan Akeley's American Museum of Natural History expedition.

[4] The block has one building that had been built by Bradley, and they occupied the top floor, plus a penthouse and roof garden, and were accompanied by a staff of servants.

[2] The couple had a daughter, Alice, in 1915; she later became a science fiction writer under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr.[3] Bradley was a big-game hunter and took his family onto Carl Ethan Akeley's American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Belgian Congo in 1921.

[7] Akeley recalled that when Bradley shot one large and placid male that "it took all one's scientific ardour to keep from feeling like a murderer" and Mary, discussing the same event, noted she would "never forget the humanness of that black, upturned face".

[7] During the expedition Bradley and Alice became ill, and a series of blood transfusions from Mary were required to save their lives.

[1] Bradley and his family undertook a second expedition to the Congo in 1924, which was the first to move through the country west of Lake Edward; Mary published Caravans and Cannibals in 1926 about this trip.