Background
Believed to have been born after 1588, Bridgeman was the fourth son of Thomas Bridgeman of Greenway, Devon and grandson of Edward Bridgeman.
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Edward Bridgeman
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Career
He was elected Member of Parliament for Liverpool in 1626. In 1628 he was elected Member of Parliament for Wigan again and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. Bridgeman was twice married.
He remarried to Anne, daughter of Sir Hugh Chamberlaine of Chester.
With her he had one daughter and also acquired a house at Sankey Bridge, Warrington. Bridgeman supported the Royalist cause at the outbreak of the English Civil War, as result of which his house was captured by Roundhead troops in 1643 and he was fined £100 as a Royalist "delinquent".
He died a prisoner of parliament while being escorted to London in 1646.
Membership
Useless Parliament; 2nd Parliament of King Charles I]
He was a law student, listed as a member of Grays Inn in 1624, and became a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) for the county of Lancaster in 1628, although he was a poor attender at quarter sessions and there was an attempt to remove him from the bench in 1638 after a serious brawl. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wigan.
