Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, FRS (9 December 1649 – 20 April 1701) In 1669 Bridgeman was called to the bar by the Inner Temple. He represented the constituency for the next ten years until the end of the Cavalier Parliament in 1679. King Charles II, created him a baronet, of Ridley, in the County of Chester on 12 November 1673.

In 1673 Bridgeman became Commissioner for Assessment in the county of Warwickshire, resigning in 1680.

Family Aged twenty he married Mary Cave on 28 September 1670. As Coventry Cathedral, the church was destroyed during World War II.

Bridgeman was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Orlando. Symes was the son of Thomas Symes Esq. (1617-22 January 1669), and grandson of John Symes, MP from Somerset.

His younger daughter Penelope was the second wife of Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington, a younger son of Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, whose title later was revived for a descendant of Bridgemans older brother John.