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There have been two Baronetcies created for a person with the surname Bridgeman, both in the Baronetage of England. Baronetage of England (1611-1705 King James I erected the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611 for the settlement of Ireland

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Great Lever Park in the County of Lancaster, was created on 7 June 1660 for the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Orlando Bridgeman, who was succeeded by his oldest son. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and later of Great Britain, was formerly an officer of the English Crown charged with physical custody of the Great The 5th Baronet, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Bradford in 1794. The Peerage is a system of Titles of Nobility in the United Kingdom, part of the British honours system. Year 1794 ( MDCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation. Chester is the County town of Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77040 Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Horsham is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Sir Orlando Bridgeman 1st Baronet SL (30 January 1606 &ndash 25 June 1674 was an English common law jurist lawyer and politician Great Lever is a mainly residential settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. He was succeeded by his own son. The latter was Member of Parliament for Calne, Lostwithiel, Blechingley and Dunwich. Calne was a Parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832 Lostwithiel was a Rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English Bletchingley was a Parliamentary borough in Surrey, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs to the House of Commons from 1295 until Dunwich was a Parliamentary borough in Suffolk, one of the most notorious of all the Rotten boroughs It elected two Members of Parliament His only son, the 3rd Baronet died unmarried and childless on sea on the way to the West Indies between November and December 1740 and the baronetcy became extinct. The Caribbean (ˌkærəˡbiən kæ'rəbiən Cariben|Caraïben or Caraïben; Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Caribe is a Region consisting A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) or the rare female equivalent a baronetess (abbreviation Btss) is the holder According to some sources, the possibility exists, that the 2nd Baronet had faked his death. In this case his son could not have succeeded him.

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Bridgeman Baronets, of Great Lever (1660)

See the Earl of Bradford

Bridgeman Baronets, of Ridley (1673)

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