George Brydges or Bridges (1678–1751), of

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, was an English Whig politician who sat in the

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for 39 years between 1708 and 1751. Avington Park - geograph

Brydges was born in July 1678, the only son of

George Rodney Brydges George Rodney Brydges or Bridges (after 1649 – 1714), of Avington, Hampshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1690 and 1714. Brydges was the second surviving son of Sir Thomas Bridges ...

and his wife

Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury ( Brudenell; 25 March 1642 - 20 April 1702) was Countess of Shrewsbury from 1659 to 1668, by virtue of her marriage to Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury. Biography Born on 25 March 1642, she was th ...

. He was probably educated at Winchester College from 1686 to 1691 and travelled abroad in Holland in 1696. He succeeded his father to Avington House in 1714 and uncle Harry Brydges at Keynsham, Somerset in 1728. Brydges stood for parliament at Whitchurch at the

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, and though defeated in the poll, was returned on petition on 21 December 1708 as a Whig

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. He did not stand in

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. He married by licence dated 2 December 1712, Anne Woolfe, daughter of Sir Joseph Woolfe, mercer, of Hackney. His father died in 1714 and he was returned as MP for

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in his place at the succeeding by-election on 15 March 1714. Brydges was returned as MP for Winchester the

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and in all succeeding general elections in

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up to and including the 1747 general election. Brydges was paralytic in old age and was found drowned on 13 May 1751 in a canal in his gardens at Avington. He was buried in the parish church. He had no children and left most of his estate to

Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, KB (17 January 1708 – 28 November 1771), known from 1727 to 1744 by the courtesy title Marquess of Carnarvon, was the second son of the 1st Duke of Chandos and his first wife Mary Lake. He was the Member ...

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