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Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley

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English baronet and politician
For his father, seeSir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever.

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet,FRS (9 December 1649 – 20 April 1701)[1] was an English baronet and politician.

Background

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Bridgeman was the second son ofSir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Dorothy, daughter of John Saunders.[2] He was educated atWestminster College from 1662 and after two years went toMagdalene College, Cambridge.[1][3] In 1669 Bridgeman was called to the bar by theInner Temple.[2]

Career

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Bridgeman entered theEnglish House of Commons in 1669, having won a by-election forHorsham.[1] He represented the constituency for the next ten years until the end of theCavalier Parliament in 1679.King Charles II, created him abaronet, of Ridley, in the County ofChester on 12 November 1673.[4]

In 1673 Bridgeman became Commissioner for Assessment in the county ofWarwickshire, resigning in 1680.[1] He held the same office inCoventry for two years from 1679.[1] Additionally he served as Commissioner for Recusants in 1675, assigned to the county ofSussex.[1] Bridgeman was elected a fellow of theRoyal Society in 1696.[5]

Family

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Aged twenty he married Mary Cave on 28 September 1670.[2] She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet and four years his junior.[2] The couple had two daughters and a son.[4] Bridgeman died intestate in 1701 and was survived by his wife for few weeks, she dying on 8 June; both were buried in the Parish Church of St. Michael, Coventry, where a plaque was erected in her honour by her friend Eliza Samwell.[2][6] AsCoventry Cathedral, the church was destroyed duringWorld War II.

Bridgeman was succeeded in the baronetcy by his sonOrlando.[4] His older daughter Charlotte (1681-3 March 1718) married Richard Symes of Blackheath as his second wife in 1703.[7][8] Symes was the son ofThomas Symes Esq. (1617-22 January 1669), and grandson ofJohn Symes, MP from Somerset.

His younger daughter Penelope was the second wife ofThomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington, a younger son ofFrancis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, whose title later was revived for a descendant of Bridgemans older brother John.[9]

Notes

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  1. ^abcdefHenning (1983), p. 717
  2. ^abcdeCokayne (1904), p. 56
  3. ^"Bridgeman, Orlando (BRGN664O)".A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^abcBurke (1841), p. 82
  5. ^"Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved16 January 2010.
  6. ^John Astley (1885),The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry, together with drawings of all the arms found therein,Wikidata Q98360469
  7. ^London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
  8. ^Tombstone Inscription-To the memory of Richard Symes, of Blackheath, in this Parish, Esq., who departed this life on Monday, the 27 of May, 1728, in the 72nd year of his age. He was the son of Thomas Symes, of Winterbourne, in the County of Gloucester, Esq., who married Amy, the sister of Sir Thomas Bridges, of Keynsham, in the County of Somersett, Knt., by whom he had 12 sons and 4 daughters. The above-named Richard was the tenth son. By his last will, bearing the date the 17 day of July, 1723, he desired that a monument might be erected by his executor in memory of him and his second wife, Charlotte Symes, who also lyes here interred; she was the daughter of Sir Orlando Bridgman, of Ridley, in the County of Chester, baronett; she died the 3 day of March, 1718, in the 37th year of her age. His third wife was Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the Right Honourable Mathew Ducie Morton, Baron Morton of Morton, in the County of Stafford, who is now living.
  9. ^Burke (1832), p. 138

References

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  • Cokayne, George Edward (1904).The Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. Exeter: William Pollard Co. Ltd.
  • Henning, Basil Duke (1983).The House of Commons, 1660–1690. Vol. I. London: Secker & Warburg.ISBN 0-436-19274-8.
  • Burke, John (1841). John Bernhard Burke (ed.).A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland (2nd ed.). London: Scott, Webster, and Geary.
  • Burke, John (1832).A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
Parliament of England
Preceded byMember of Parliament forHorsham
1669–1679
With:Sir John Covert, Bt		Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
New creationBaronet
(of Ridley)
1673–1701		Succeeded by
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