Ray Bradbury, American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer.[3] Bradbury Robinson (1752–1801), a great-great grandson, fought for the patriots at the Battle of Concord (1775) and testified that the British fired first.[4][5] Bradbury Robinson (1884–1949), threw American football's first legal forward pass. Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist, a fourth great-grandson of Mary Bradbury, descendant through her daughter Judith.