Sir Francis Bridgeman, 3rd Baronet (August 1713 – November or December 1740) was a British

Great Britain

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 baronet.

He was the only son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet was a British baronet and Whig politician.-Background:He was the oldest son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Cave, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet. His sister Penelope was married to Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington...

 and his wife Susanna Dashwood, daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Dashwood, 1st Baronet was a British merchant.A son of Francis Dashwood, Alderman of London, he and his brother Samuel Dashwood early joined their father's business and became leading silk importers. They were also members of the British East India Company and the Worshipful Company of...

. Following his father's apparent drowing in 1738, Bridgeman was assumed to have inherited the baronetcy. Shortly thereafter his father, who had only feigned his death to avoid his creditors, was discovered in an inn and imprisoned. Therefore Bridgeman never actually succeeded to the title and it instead became extinct with the death of the second Baronet in 1746.

Bridgeman died, unmarried and childless, aged only 27, on board a ship in Sir Chaloner Ogle's fleet, en route to the West Indies.