BRIDGES, William (d. 1714), of Wallington, Surr. and the Tower of London

Family and Education

s. of Robert Bridges by his w. Mary Woodcock. Prob. unm. Playfair, Brit. Fam. Antiquity, vi. 797–8; Manning and Bray, Surr. i. 270 (cf. Mar. Lic. Vicar-Gen. (Harl. Soc. xxx), 87); St. Paul’s, Covent Garden (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxxv), 67.

Offices Held

Farmer, hearth tax by 1681–4; clerk of deliveries, Ordnance 1682– Aug. 1683, storekeeper Aug. 1683–5, surveyor-gen. 1702–d.; ?sec. to commrs. of accts. and council of trade [I] 1683; commr. excise and hearth money 1684–5. Cal. Treas. Bks. vii. 297, 1074, 1485; xxiii. 224; H. C. Tomlinson, Guns and Govt. 224–5; CSP Dom. Jan.–June 1683, p. 6; 1684–5, pp. 302, 309; Luttrell, Brief Relation, i. 326.

Freeman, Portsmouth 1702; stannator, Foymore 1703; commr. Greenwich Hosp. 1704, fortifying Chatham, Harwich and Portsmouth 1709. R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 373; J. Tregoning, Laws of the Stannaries, 118; Daily Courant, 8 Aug. 1704.

Parlimentarian

BRIDGES, William (d. 1714), of Wallington, Surr. and the Tower of London

Main residences: Wallington, Surr.; the Tower of London.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

BRIDGES, William (d. 1714)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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