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Orlando Bridgeman

1649 - 1701

Died

20 April 1701

Nationality
British
Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
23/03/1698
Relationships
Son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Kt and Bart, Lord Keeper, of Great Lever, Lancashire, and his second wife, Dorothy, widow of George Cradock of Cavershall Castle, Staffordshire, and daughter of John Saunders, DD, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford; married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, Bart, of Stanford Hall, Northamptonshire, and his second wife, Penelope, daughter of Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman; first cousin of William Bridgeman (FRS 1679)

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