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No. 2.

CAPTAIN THE HONOURABLE CHARLES ORLANDO BRIDGEMAN, R.N.

''Naval uniform. Holding a telescope.''

BORN 1791, DIED 1860.

He was the second son of Orlando, first Earl of Bradford (of the Bridgeman family), by Lucy Elizabeth Byng, daughter of George, fourth Viscount Torrington. He entered the Navy in 1804 as first-class volunteer, on board the Repulse, Captain the Honourable Arthur Legge, under whom the following year he became Midshipman, and was present at Sir Robert Calder's action at the Passage of the Dardanelles, and also in the Expedition of the Scheldt. In 1809 he joined the Manilla, 36, Captain George Francis Seymour (grandfather to the present Marquis of Hertford, 1885); in 1810 he was confirmed Lieutenant in the Semiramis, both on the Lisbon station. He was subsequently appointed Flag-Lieutenant to his old Commander, Rear-Admiral Legge, under whose orders he had first sailed. Charles Bridgeman was present at the defence of Cadiz, and joined successively the Bellerophon, hoisting the flag of Sir Richard Keats, on the Newfoundland station, and the Royal Sovereign, yacht, Captain Sir John Poer Beresford. For two years he then commanded the Badger, in the West Indies station, and assisted in the reduction of Guadaloupe, and later on was appointed to the Icarus, in South America, and the Ruttenheimer, which was attached to the squadron in the Mediterranean.