Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford (19 March 1762 – 7 September 1825) was a British peer and politician who sat in the

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from 1784 to 1800. Weston Park - geograph

Bridgeman was the son of the 1st Baron Bradford and his wife Elizabeth Simpson, daughter of Reverend John Simpson. He was educated at

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, London, and at

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. At the 1784 general election, Bridgeman was returned unopposed as

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(MP) for

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. He was returned unopposed for Wigan again in 1790 and

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. His elder brother Henry Simpson Bridgeman had died in 1782 so he succeeded to his father's titles on 5 June 1800 and vacated his seat in the House of Commons. In October 1800 he raised a

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at Weston for the

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and commanded it as

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until 1804.Capt P.C.G. Webster, ''The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry'', Lichfield: Lomax, 1870, pp. 16, 29; Appendix.
/ref> On 30 November 1815, he was made Viscount Newport, in the County of

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and Earl of Bradford, in the County of Shropshire. Bradford died aged 63 in

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Family

Lord Bradford married Hon. Lucy Elizabeth Byng, daughter of the 4th Viscount Torrington, on 29 May 1788. They had four sons and a daughter: * George Augustus Frederick Henry Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford (1789–1865) * Vice-Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman (1791–1860), married Eliza Caroline Chamberlain, daughter of

Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet (1773– 31 July 1829) was a British diplomat, consul general to Portugal and chargé d'affaires to Brazil. He was created a baronet on 22 February 1828. Henry was a natural son of the Honourable Henry F ...

, on 2 January 1819 * Lady Lucy Georgiana Elizabeth Whitmore (1792–1840), married

William Wolryche-Whitmore William Wolryche-Whitmore (16 September 1787 – 11 August 1858) was a Shropshire landowner and British Whig politician. He held a seat in the House of Commons from 1820 to 1835, representing first Bridgnorth and later Wolverhampton. His sist ...

* Hon. Orlando Henry Bridgeman (1794–1827), married Lady Selina Needham, daughter of the 5th Earl of Kilmorey, on 5 July 1817 * Rev. Hon. Henry Edmund Bridgeman (1795–1872), married his cousin Louisa Elizabeth Simpson, daughter of Hon. John Simpson on 25 August 1820. Simpson was the son of the 1st Baron Bradford but took the name of Simpson in 1785.

References

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