Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford
British peer (1873–1957)
Lieutenant-Colonel Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford (6 October 1873 – 21 March 1957), styled Viscount Newport from 1898 to 1915, was a British peer, Conservative politician and soldier.
Background
Bridgeman was the oldest son of George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford, and his wife Lady Ida (née Lumley), the second daughter of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough. Bridgeman was educated at Harrow School and went then to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1896 and with a Master of Arts in 1903. At Cambridge, he was secretary of the Pitt Club. He succeeded his father as earl in 1915.
He owned up to 20,000 acres (8,100 ha).
Career
Bridgeman joined the 3rd (Edinburgh Light Infantry Militia) Battalion, Royal Scots, and was appointed a captain on 29 April 1899. The battalion was embodied in December 1899 to serve in the Second Boer War, and in early March 1900 left Queenstown, Ireland, on the SS Oriental for South Africa. He fought in the war after arrival in 1900, and again in 1902, returning from Cape Town to the United Kingdom with most of his regiment in May 1902. He again fought in the First World War from 1915 as a lieutenant-colonel.
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