Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet

Mentioned on the monument in St Michael the Archangel, Llanyblodwel to his father, John Bridgeman

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Baronet (2 July 1695 – 25 July 1764)[1] was a British baronet and politician.

Born in Blodwell in Shropshire, he was the oldest son of Sir John Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet and his wife Ursula, daughter of Roger Matthews.[2] Bridgeman was educated at New College, Oxford and in 1713, he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple.[2] In 1723, he entered the British House of Commons, sitting for Shrewsbury in the next four years.[3] He succeeded his father as baronet on the latter's death in 1747.[4]

On 8 April 1719, Bridgeman married Anne Newport, third daughter of Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford.[5] They had three sons and two daughters.[4] His wife died in 1752 and Bridgeman survived her until 1764, aged 69; both were buried at Weston Park in the county of Staffordshire.[6] His oldest son having predeceased him, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son Henry, who later was raised to the peerage as Baron Bradford.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Retrieved 19 December 2009.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cokayne, George Edward (1903). The Complete Baronetage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. vol. III. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. Ltd. p. 27.
  3. ↑ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Shrewsbury". Retrieved 20 December 2009.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson, ed. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. vol. II. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 9.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. p. 59.
  6. ↑ "ThePeerage - Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Bt". Retrieved 1 December 2006.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Richard Lyster
Corbet Kynaston		 Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury
1723–1727
With: Sir Richard Corbet		 Succeeded by
Richard Lyster
Sir John Astley
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
John Bridgeman		 Baronet
(of Great Lever)
1747–1764 		Succeeded by
Henry Bridgeman