Bridgeman Baronets - Bridgeman Baronets, of Ridley (1673)

Bridgeman Baronets, of Ridley (1673)

• Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet (died 1701)
• Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (died 1738)
• Sir Francis Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet (August 1713 – November or December 1740). was a British baronet. He was the only son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet and his wife Susanna Dashwood, daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet. Following his father's apparent drowing in 1738, Bridgeman was assumed to have inherited the baronetcy. Shortly thereafter his father, who had only feigned his death to avoid his creditors, was discovered in an inn and imprisoned. Therefore Bridgeman never actually succeeded to the title and it instead became extinct with the death of the second Baronet in 1746. Bridgeman died, unmarried and childless, aged only 27, on board a ship in Sir Chaloner Ogle's fleet, en route to the West Indies.