George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Earl
of Bradford DL JP (3
February 1845 – 2 January 1915) 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 (MP)
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. On 7 September
1869, the then-Viscount Newport, married Lady Ida
Frances Annabella Lumley (28 November 1848 – 22 August 1936),
daughter of Richard
Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough (7 May 1813 – 5 December 1884),
and Frederica Mary Adeliza Drummond (16 December 1826 – 2 April 1907) in Maltby, Yorkshire. They had seven children:
·
Lady
Beatrice Adine Bridgeman (2 December 1870 – 27 June 1952), married on 28 June
1894 to Colonel Rt. Hon. Ernest George Pretyman (13
November 1859 – 26 November 1931) and had issue.
·
Lady
Margaret Alice Bridgeman (20 January 1872 – 7 August 1954), 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 (6 October 1873 – 21 March
1957).
·
Lady
Helena Mary Bridgeman (16 July 1875 – 27 August 1947), married Osbert
Molyneux, 6th Earl of Sefton, on 8 January 1898 and had issue.
·
Lady
Florence Sibell Bridgeman (24 March 1877 – 16 June 1936), married Ronald Collet Norman, son
of Frederick Henry Norman, on 10 February 1904 and had issue.
· Commander The Hon. Richard Orlando Beaconsfield Bridgeman (28 February 1879 – 9 January 1917), 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 (15 August 1882 – 19 May 1972), married on 30
December 1930 to Joan Constable-Maxwell (22 March 1901 – 1991) and had issue.
The Countess of Bradford was a Lady of the Bedchamber to
the Princess of Wales (later Queen Mary) from 1901.