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Bridgeman baronets
Bridgeman baronets
	Escutcheon of the Bridgeman baronets of Ridley
Creation date	1673
Status	extinct
Extinction date	1746

The Bridgeman baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1673 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.^[3] He was succeeded by his son, the 2nd Baronet. The latter was Member of Parliament for Calne, Lostwithiel, Blechingley and Dunwich.

Bridgeman baronets, of Ridley (1673)

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet (died 1701)^[1]
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (died 1746)^[2]

The supposed third baronet

Francis Bridgeman (August 1713 – November or December 1740) was the only son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Susanna Dashwood, daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet.^[4] Following his father's apparent drowning in 1738, Bridgeman was assumed to have inherited the baronetcy.^[5] Shortly thereafter, his father, who had only feigned his death to avoid his creditors, was discovered and imprisoned.^[6] Francis Bridgeman died, unmarried and childless, aged only 27, on board a ship in Sir Chaloner Ogle's fleet, en route to the West Indies.^[5] He had not succeeded to the title, and it instead became extinct with the death of the 2nd Baronet in 1746.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Bridgeman, Orlando (1649-1701), of Little Park Street, Coventry, Warws., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
^ ^a ^b "Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, 2nd Bt. (1678-1746), of Bloomsbury Square, Mdx.; Coventry, Warws. and Bowood, nr. Calne, Wilts., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
^ Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1904), Complete Baronetage volume 4 (1665–1707), vol. 4, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, p. 75, retrieved 2 February 2019
^ "ThePeerage - Sir Francis Bridgeman, 3rd Bt". Retrieved 6 December 2006.
^ ^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. p. 82.
^ ^a ^b Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D. W. Hayton, ed. (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. Vol. III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 325.