Background
Henry Bedingfield was the son of John Bedingfield (1595–1680) of Halesworth, Suffolk and was baptised on 9 December 1632.
Henry Bedingfield was the son of John Bedingfield (1595–1680) of Halesworth, Suffolk and was baptised on 9 December 1632.
He was educated at Norwich Grammar School, and was admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1650.
He was briefly Chief Justice of the Common Pleas at the end of his life. He also entered Lincoln"s Inn that year, and was called to the bar in 1657. The following year he was made a freeman of Dunwich, enabling him to bs elected to the Convention Parliament in 1660.
He did not seek re-election subsequently, preferring to concentrate on his legal practice.
In 1683, he presented an address from Dunwich, abhorring the Rye House Plot. That November he became a bencher of Lincoln"s Inn and became a serjeant at law in the following January, and a King"s Serjeant in the following November when he was knighted.
Following the scuccession of James II, he was elected a Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh. In February 1686 he was appointed as a justice of common pleas and in April as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
However, he died suddenly in the following February.
Handley, Stuart. "Bedingfield, Sir Henry (bap. 1632, daughter 1687". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed).
Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1937.
(Subscription or United Kingdom public library membership required).