Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, 6th Baronet

Sir Henry Richard Paston-Bedingfeld, 6th Baronet JP DL (born Bedingfeld; 10 May 1800 – 4 February 1862), was an English landowner and baronet.

Early life Born Henry Richard Bedingfeld on 10 May 1800 at Oxborough in Norfolk, he was the eldest son of Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5th Baronet, of Oxburgh Hall, and Charlotte Georgiana Jerningham. Among his siblings were Frances "Fanny" Bedingfeld (wife of William Petre, 11th Baron Petre),

His father was the only son and heir of Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 4th Baronet and Hon. Mary Browne (a daughter of the 6th Viscount Montagu), who died from complications during childbirth. His maternal grandparents were Sir William Jerningham, 6th Baronet of Costessey and Hon. Frances Dillon (a daughter of the 11th Viscount Dillon). Among his paternal family was uncle George Stafford-Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford.

Career Arms of Grandison sculpted on an oriel window at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. Upon the death of his father on 22 November 1829, he succeeded as the 6th Baronet Bedingfeld, of Oxburgh, becoming the head of a distinguished Roman Catholic family which had "for several generations formed alliances with some of the most illustrious families of the peerage." In 1858, after five centuries in abeyance, he was declared by the Committee of Privileges to be one of the co-heirs of the Barony of Grandison "through "the families of Paston, Tuddenham, Patteshull, and Grandison, heir to Dame Katherine Tuddenham, in whom one-fourth of a third of the representation of the Barony of Grandison had vested." In 1841, his wife inherited the Brailes estate in Warwickshire.

Matilda Charlotte Paston-Bedingfeld (1827–1905), who married Capt. George Henry Nevill, of Nevill Holt, a son of Charles Nevill and Lady Georgiana Bingham (a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lucan) in 1855. and was buried in the chapel at Oxburgh Hall, 11 February 1862. His wife, who took the surname Paston-Bishopp-Bedingfeld by royal licence in 1841, had reverted to Paston-Bedingfeld before her death in Bath on 31 January 1887.