2. Charles George Orlando² Bridgeman (Reverend George Thomas Orlando¹) was born c1852. Charles died 1933 at 81 years of age.

He married Sidney Gardiner 1888. Sidney was the daughter of General Sir Henry Lynedoch Gardiner. From The Times, December 29, 1933

Mr. Charles George Orlando Bridgeman, who died last week at the age of 81, was the younger of two sons of the Rev. the Hon. George Bridgeman, his mother being a daughter of the Hon. Richard Bagot, Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Educated, like his father and grandfather, the second Earl of Bradford, at Harrow (The Grove), where he was Spencer scholar, he remained an enthusiastic Old Harrovian all his life, and prided himself on never having been absent from an Eton and Harrow match for 60 successive years. He was a good cricketer in his day, and was in the cricket and football elevens. Charlie Bridgeman, the name by which his friends knew him, went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and after taking his degree, was called to the Bar in 1876. He practised for a short time in Lancashire, in the Palentine Court, before coming to London, where, for well over half a century as a chancery and conveyancing counsel, he was the trusted confidant and adviser of a number of family solicitors. He worked right up to the end of his long life - indeed, within a week of his death he was still at work, his intellect being as clear as ever.

Bridgeman was an archaeologist of no mean order, and from time to time made valuable contributions to the publications of archaeological and other societies. He earned special applause in editing the Text of the Surveys of the Lands of the Abbey of Burton-on-Trent - the first of which surveys antedated everything except Domesday itself. It was described by Professor Stenton in 1931 as the best available material for showing the realities of social life under the Norman kings, and he congratulated Bridgeman on his "magnificent and scholarly" work. This was characteristic of all his work - scholarly, done with meticulous care, absolutely trustworthy. He set himself a high standard in his work and mode of life. This and his charm of character ever had a refining influence on those in contact with him. Bridgeman was also an expert in peerage law, and his knowledge and advice were invaluable, notably in the claims to the Earldom of Lauderdale and the Dukedom of Somerset, in both of which he was engaged.

Among the poor in the East End of London Bridgeman did good work and nearly 50 years ago with other friends founded a successful working men's club in Ratcliff Highway. His taste for music was helpful to him in this work; he was specially fond of sacred music, and for a number of years was a regular member of the choir of St. Peter's, Eaton Square. Mr. Bridgeman married in 1888 Sidney, daughter of the late General Sir Henry Lynedoch Gardiner. She survives him with a daugher, Miss Victoria Bridgeman, and a son, Major Roger Orlando Bridgeman, late The Rifle Brigade, Governor of H.M. Prison, Dorchester, who married a few years ago a daughter of General the Hon. Sir Richard Stuart-Wortley.

Charles George Orlando Bridgeman and Sidney Gardiner had the following children:

3 i. Victoria³ Bridgeman.

4 ii. Roger Orlando Bridgeman. He married Miss Stuart-Wortley. Miss was the daughter of General the Hon. Sir Richard Stuart-Wortley.

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