Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1st Baronet (14 January 1628 – 31 March 1684) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1660 to 1679. Bradshaigh was the third but oldest surviving son of James Bradshaigh of

Haigh Hall Haigh Hall is a historic country house in Haigh, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Built between 1827 and 1840 for James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres, it replaced an ancient manor house and was a Lindsay family home until 1947, when it wa ...

, Haigh, Lancashire, by Anne, daughter of Sir William Norris of SpekeWilliam Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven ''The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c.'' (1889)
/ref> In 1660, he was elected member of parliament (MP) for

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in the Convention Parliament. and was knighted on 18 June 1660. In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Lancashire in the

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and sat until 1679. He served as

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for 1679 and was created

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on 17 November 1679. Roger Bradshaigh developed coal and cannell pits under his Haigh Hall estate and the

Great Haigh Sough The Great Haigh Sough is a tunnel or adit driven under Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1st Baronet, Sir Roger Bradshaigh's Haigh Hall, estate between 1653 and 1670, to drain his coal and cannel pits in Haigh, Greater Manchester, Haigh on the Lancashire Coa ...

, a tunnel to drain them, was driven under the estate between 1653 and 1670. Bradshaigh died at the age of 57 on a visit to Chester and was buried at Wigan. He had married Elizabeth, the daughter of William Pennington of Muncaster, Cumberland. They had four sons (only one surviving him) and three daughters.

Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 2nd Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part ...

(1699–1770) married Dorothy Bellingham who was a noted correspondent of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradshaigh, Roger 1628 births 1684 deaths English MPs 1660 High sheriffs of Lancashire Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Lancashire English MPs 1661–1679 Baronets in the Baronetage of England