George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford
George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford DL JP was a British soldier and peer.
The elder son of the 3rd Earl of Bradford and the Hon. Selina Louisa Forester, Bridgeman was educated at Harrow School, and served in the 1st Life Guards and the Shropshire Yeomanry, reaching the rank of Captain. He succeeded his father in his titles on 9 March 1898.
Bridgeman was Member of Parliament for North Shropshire from 1867 to 1885. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire and Shropshire, as well as Justice of Peace for Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Shropshire.
He died in London, and was buried in Weston Park, Staffordshire, on 6 January 1915.Family
On 7 September 1869, the then-Viscount Newport, married Lady Ida Frances Annabella Lumley, daughter of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough, and Frederica Mary Adeliza Drummond in Maltby, Yorkshire. They had seven children:
- Lady Beatrice Adine Bridgeman, married on 28 June 1894 to Colonel Rt. Hon. Ernest George Pretyman and had issue.
- Lady Margaret Alice Bridgeman, married John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch, on 30 January 1893 and had issue, one such being Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.
- Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford.
- Lady Helena Mary Bridgeman, married Osbert Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton, on 8 January 1898 and had issue.
- Lady Florence Sibell Bridgeman, married Ronald Collet Norman, son of Frederick Henry Norman, on 10 February 1904 and had issue.
- Commander The Hon. Richard Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and died in East Africa after the plane in which he was flying as observer, with Sqdn. Cdr. Edwin Rowland Moon as pilot, was forced to land with engine trouble. He was buried in Dar Es Salaam CWGC Cemetery.
- Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Henry George Orlando Bridgeman, married on 30 December 1930 to Joan Constable-Maxwell and had issue.
The Countess of Bradford was a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales from 1901.
