where did sir donald bradman live?
Adelaide
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 He bought a 365 @-@ acre ( 148 @-@ hectare ) 20 @-@ bedroom luxury estate in Rockwood , Surrey in 1995 through a chain of firms , trusts , and offshore companies in 1994 . The country home 's refurbishment abruptly ended in October 1996 , shortly before the end of his wife 's second term . He initially denied for eight years that he owned the property and no one paid the bills for the work on the unoccupied mansion . Creditors forced a liquidation sale in 2004 and the Pakistani government claimed the proceeds because the home had been bought with money obtained through corruption . However , he stepped in to claim that he actually was the beneficial owner . As of November 2008 , the proceeds were in a liquidator bank account while a civil case continues . 

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 Bradman retired from his stockbroking business in June 1954 , depending on the " comfortable " income earned as a board member of 16 publicly listed companies . His highest profile affiliation was with Argo Investments Limited , where he was chairman for a number of years . Charles Williams commented that , " [ b ] usiness was excluded on medical grounds , [ so ] the only sensible alternative was a career in the administration of the game which he loved and to which he had given most of his active life " . 

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 Donald George Bradman was the youngest son of George and Emily ( née Whatman ) Bradman , and was born on 27 August 1908 at Cootamundra , New South Wales ( NSW ) . He had a brother , Victor , and three sisters — Islet , Lilian and Elizabeth May . One of his great @-@ grandfathers was one of the first Italians to migrate to Australia in 1826 . Bradman 's parents lived in the hamlet of Yeo Yeo , near Stockinbingal . His mother Emily gave birth to him at the Cootamundra home of Granny Scholz , a midwife . That house is now the Bradman Birthplace Museum . Emily had hailed from Mittagong in the NSW Southern Highlands , and in 1911 , when Don Bradman was about two @-@ and @-@ a @-@ half years old , his parents decided to relocate to Bowral , close to Mittagong , to be closer to Emily 's family and friends , as life at Yeo Yeo was proving difficult . 

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 As early as 1939 , Bradman had a Royal Navy ship named after him . Built as a fishing trawler in 1936 , the HMS Bradman was taken over by the Admiralty in 1939 , but was sunk by German aircraft the following year . 

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 The Bradmans lived in the same modest , suburban house in Holden Street , Kensington Park in Adelaide for all but the first three years of their married life . They experienced personal tragedy in raising their children : their first @-@ born son died as an infant in 1936 , their second son , John ( born in 1939 ) contracted polio , and their daughter , Shirley , born in 1941 , had cerebral palsy from birth . His family name proved a burden for John Bradman ; he legally changed his last name to Bradsen in 1972 . Although claims were made that he became estranged from his father , it was more a matter of " the pair inhabit [ ing ] different worlds " . After the cricketer 's death , a collection of personal letters written by Bradman to his close friend Rohan Rivett between 1953 and 1977 was released and gave researchers new insights into Bradman 's family life , including the strain between father and son . 
