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Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet

1675 – 1747

English politician and coal owner

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Lived 1675 – 1747 (aged 71–72). Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet was an English and British politician.

Sir Robert Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet (1675–1747), of Haigh Hall near Wigan, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons and British House of Commons for 52 years from 1695 to 1747.

Bradshaigh was the eldest son of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 2nd Baronet, of Haigh, and his wife Mary Murray, daughter of Henry Murray of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and was baptized on 29 April 1675. He was educated privately under Mr Francis and at Ruthin School. He succeeded his father to Haigh Hall and the baronetcy on 17 June 1687.

He was Mayor of Wigan for 1698, 1703, 1719, 1724 and 1729.

He married, in 1697, Rachel, the daughter of Sir John Guise, 2nd Baronet, of Elmore, Gloucestershire, and had four sons and two daughters. In 1742 he handed over Haigh Hall to his eldest son, Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 4th Baronet, and died in 1747.

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Born
1675
Birth century
Died
1747
Occupation
Positions held
Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1695-98 Parliament, Member of the 1698-1700 Parliament, Member of the 1701-02 Parliament
Also known as
Roger Bradshaigh

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Who was Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet?

English politician and coal owner

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Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet was born in 1675.

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Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet died in 1747.

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Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet was a politician.

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Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet was English and British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet

· Wikidata: Q18922264

· DBpedia: Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 3rd Baronet

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