Francis Charles Bridgeman
Brigadier Francis Charles Bridgeman JP (4 July 1846 – 14 September 1917),[1] styled The Honourable from 1865, was a British Army officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.
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[edit] Background and education
Bridgeman was the second son of Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford.[2] His mother was Hon. Selina Louisa Forester, the daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, 1st Baron Forester.[2] Bridgeman was educated in Harrow School and joined afterwards the British Army.[3]
[edit] Career
In 1865, he purchased a commission into the Scots Fusilier Guards as an ensign and lieutenant[4] and four years later became a lieutenant and captain.[5] Bridgeman was nominated an aide-de-camp to Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1875, a position he held until the following year.[6] He was promoted to captain and lieutenant-colonel in 1877.[7] A year later, Bridgeman accompanied a special mission sent to Spain and attended the marriage of King Alfonso XII, where he was invested a knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic.[6] In 1883 Bridgeman was advanced to major.[8]
He took part in the Suakin Expedition in 1885 and upon his return he entered the British House of Commons, having been elected for Bolton; he represented the constituency for a decade until 1895.[9] Bridgeman obtained colonelship in 1887[10] and received command of the Staffordshire Infantry Brigade in 1892.[11] He became commandant of the central group of the London Volunteer Regiment in 1916.[12] Bridgeman was a Justice of the Peace for the counties Staffordshire as well as Shropshire.[13]
[edit] Family
Bridgeman married firstly, Gertude Cecilia, daughter of George Hanbury, on 26 July 1883; they had five children.[13] Gertrude died in 1911 and after two years as a widower Bridgeman remarried Agnes Florence, daughter of Richard Holt Briscoe on 27 November 1913.[13] He died in 1917 and was survived by his second wife until 1946.[1] His oldest son was the diplomat Reginald Bridgeman.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c de Massue (1994), p. 100
- ^ a b Fox-Davies (1895), p. 123
- ^ Welch (1894), p. 263
- ^ London Gazette: no. 2299. p. 3486. 11 July 1865. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 23511. p. 3692. 29 June 1869. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
- ^ a b Debrett (1886), p. 18
- ^ London Gazette: no. 24500. p. 5098. 4 September 1877. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 25250. p. 3531. 13 July 1883. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- ^ Burke (1914), p. 286
- ^ London Gazette: no. 25680. p. 1231. 8 March 1887. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 26320. p. 4894. 26 August 1892. Retrieved 7 January 2009.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 29766. p. 9457. 26 September 1916. Retrieved 7 January 2010.
- ^ a b c Dod (1915), p. 101
[edit] References
- Debrett, John (1886). Robert Henry Mair. ed. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son Ltd..
- Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families. Edinburgh: Grange Publishing Works.
- Charles Roger Dod and Robert Philip Dod (1915). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland 1915. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co. Ltd..
- (Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval) de Massue, Melville Henry (1994). Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Clarence Volume. London: Genealogical Publishing Co.. ISBN 080631432X.
- Welch, Reginald Courtenay (1894). The Harrow School Register, 1801–1893. London: Longmans, Green and Co..
- Burke, John (1914). Ashworth P. Burke. ed. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerag, Baronetage and Knightage 1914. London: Harrison and Sons Ltd..
[edit] External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Francis Bridgeman
- Portraits of Francis Bridgeman at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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| Preceded by John Pennington Thomasson Herbert Shepherd-Cross |
Member of Parliament for Bolton 1885 – 1895 With: Herbert Shepherd-Cross |
Succeeded by Herbert Shepherd-Cross George Harwood |
