Family and Education
b. July 1678, o. s. of George Rodney Brydges (Bridges)*. educ. ?Winchester 1686–91; ?travelled abroad (Holland) 1696. m. lic. 2 Dec. 1712, Anne, da. and coh. of Sir Joseph Woolfe (d. 1711), Mercer, of Hackney, Mdx., sheriff of London 1703–4 and alderman 1705–d., s.p. suc. fa. 1714; uncle Harry Brydges at Keynsham, Som. 1728. HMC Bath, iii. 167; Winchester Long Rolls 1653–1721 ed. Holgate, 53, 56, 58, 61, 63, 65–66; CSP Dom. 1696, pp. 43, 53; Fac. Off. Mar. Lic. (Index Lib. xxxiii), 275; Beaven, Aldermen, ii. 120; PCC 223 Young; GEC Baronetage, i. 132; St. Helen’s Bishopsgate (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxxi), 57, 354; Lysons, Environs (1792–6), iii. 287, 299.
Offices Held
Freeman, Lymington 1701, Winchester 1701, Portsmouth 1710.
Master keeper of south bailiwick, New Forest by 1704–aft.1720.
Main residence: Avington, Hants.
BRIDGES
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Commons 1690-1715
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BRYDGES, George (1678-1751)
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Oxford 1644
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