Sir Francis Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet

For other people named Francis Bridgeman, see Francis Bridgeman (disambiguation).

Sir Francis Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet (August 1713 – November or December 1740)[1] was a British baronet.

He was the only son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet and his wife Susanna Dashwood, daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet.[2] Following his father's apparent drowing in 1738, Bridgeman was assumed to have inherited the baronetcy.[3] Shortly thereafter his father, who had only feigned his death to avoid his creditors, was discovered in an inn and imprisoned.[4] Therefore Bridgeman never actually succeeded to the title and it instead became extinct with the death of the second Baronet in 1746.[4]

Bridgeman died, unmarried and childless, aged only 27, on board a ship in Sir Chaloner Ogle's fleet, en route to the West Indies.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsB5.htm. Retrieved 25 June 2009. 
  2. ^ "ThePeerage - Sir Francis Bridgeman, 3rd Bt". http://www.thepeerage.com/p14917.htm#i149167. Retrieved 6 December 2006. 
  3. ^ a b 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. pp. 82. 
  4. ^ a b Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D. W. Hayton, ed (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. vol. III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 325. 
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Orlando Bridgeman		 Baronet
 (of Ridley)
1738 – 1740		 Extinct