A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bridge, William Henry
BRIDGE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
William Henry Bridge entered the Navy 22 March, 1823; passed his examination 20 Nov. 1830; became, in 1839, a student at the Royal Naval College; and was promoted (from the Indus 78, Capt. Sir Jas. Stirling, fitting for the Mediterranean) to the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1841. His appointments have since been – 6 May following, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings – 17 Aug. in the same year, to the Southampton 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Sir Edw. Durnford King, from which he was paid off in Dec. 1842 – 19 Oct. 1843, to the Cormorant steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Thos. Gordon, with whom he served as First-Lieutenant in the Pacific – 30 May, 1845, as Additional, to the Hibernia 104, Capt. Peter Richards, lying at Portsmouth – and, 14 July, 1845, to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, now attached to the Channel squadron.
Lieut. Bridge married, 6 June, 1841, Anne, only daughter of the late E. K. Piercy, Esq., of Passage West, co. Cork, and by that lady has issue.