Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
- Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (c. 1679 – 10 June 1738) was a British politician. The son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet and Mary Cave was educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire and Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1694. On 20 April 1701, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. Bridgeman was Member of Parliament (MP) for Calne from 1715 to 1722 and for Lostwithiel from February 1724 to 1727. He was further Member of Parliament for Blechingley from 1727 to 1734 and for Dunwich from 1734 to 1738. Between 1716 and 1727, he was Auditor-General to the Prince of Wales, and between 1727 and 1738 Commissioner of Trade. On 15 April 1702, he married Susanna Dashwood, daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet. They had one son, Francis Bridgeman.
In 1737, he was nominated Governor of Barbados, but disappeared before sailing. He left farewell letters to his family and to King George II. On the 10 June 1738, a body was found drowned in the Thames near Limehouse. Identified as Bridgeman, although the body had been disfigured by the water, he was buried in St Nicholas, Gloucester, on 5 December 1745. His estate was administered in 1751.
Today some scholars suspect that he faked his death to escape from his creditors. Bridgeman had built a new house at Bowood Park, Wiltshire, so that he got deeply into debt and the Chancery Courts started with proceedings against him in 1737. His principal creditor Richard Long acquired ownership of Bowood after a Chancery Decree in his favour in 1739. [A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 17, D.A. Crowley 2002] The diary of the 1st Earl of Egmont says the following:
Sir Orlando Bridgeman who, instead of going to his government of Barbados conferred on his last winter, made his escape (as he hoped) from the world, to avoid his creditors, by pretending to make himself away, and accordingly gave it out that he had drowned himself, was ferreted out of his hole by the reward advertised for whoever should discover him, and seized in an inn at Slough, where he had ever since concealed himself.
If Bridgeman had survived, then his son Francis did not succeed to the baronetcy and instead it became extinct with the probable death of the 2nd Baronet in 1745 or 1746.References
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