Family and Education
b. 30 Apr. 1735, s. of John Brickdale, Bristol draper. educ. at Leicester.Geo. Harry, 5th Earl of Stamford, educated at Leicester, in a letter to Portland, 26 Nov. 1768, refers to Brickdale as his ‘old schoolfellow’, Portland mss. . m. bef. 1759,His son John matric. Ch. Ch. Oxf. March 1778, aged 18. Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Smith of Clifton, 2s. 1da. suc. fa. 1765.
Offices Held
Common councillor, Bristol 1767 – 84; elected mayor 1791 but refused to serve.
Main residences: Clifton, Glos.; Taunton, Som.
Volume
Commons 1754-1790
Web Title
BRICKDALE, Matthew (1735-1831)
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Oxford 1644
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