BRADFORD 275 1708-10, and 1713-22; Lord Lieut, of co. Stafford 1715-25; and of cos. Salop and Montgomery 1724 till his death. He appears to have d. unm., but reference is made to the re-marriage, in 1737 (or thereabouts), of "the Countess" [Query, his mistress?] in family letters.() He d. s.p. legit., 23 Dec. 1 734, at his house in St. James's Place, and was bur. 20 Jan. i "J^^-ISt in Westm. Abbey, in his 52nd year. "Will dat. 8 May 1730 to 17 Apr. 1733. Pr-^i Jan. i734/5-() IV. 1734 4- Thomas (Newport), Earl of Bradford [1694], to Viscount Newport of Bradford [1675], and Baron 1762. Newport of High Ercall [1642], only surv. br. and h.('=) He became imbecile, owing to a fall from his horse in early life, and d. unm., 18 Apr. 1762, at Weston, aged 76, when all his honours became extinct. Admon. 4 May 1762, to his sister, Diana, Dowager Countess of Mountrath [L]. BARONY. I. Henry Bridgeman, s. and h. of Sir Orlando B., of y Weston Park, co. Stafford, abovenamed, by Anne, 2nd '^'^' da. of Richard (Newport), 2nd Earl of Bradford, (sister of, and whose issue became coh. to, the 3rd and 4th Earls) was b. 7 Sep. 1725. Clerk Comptroller of the Board of Green Cloth 1761-64; sue. his maternal uncle, the 4th Earl, in 1762, in the estate of Weston, and sue. his father, 25 July 1764, in the Baronetcy, and in the estate of Castle Bromwich, co. Warwick, tfc; was M.P.^**) for Ludlow 1748-68; and forWenlock 1768-94; was cr. LL.D. Cambridge, 3 July 1769, and D.C.L. Oxford 4 July 1793. On 13 Aug. 1794, he was cr. BARON BRADFORD OF BRADFORD, Salop. He m., 12 July 1755, Elizabeth, da. and h. of the Rev. John Simpson, of Stoke Hall, co. Derby, by ( — ) Stringer, granddaughter of Francis S., of Sutton upon Lound. He d. 5 June 1 800, in Old Burlington Str., aged 74. Will pr. (*) The date of these letters was certainly after Apr. 1736. As the Dowager Countess of the 2nd Earl would then be about 75, it is hardly probable she can be the person indicated. See Additions for a Royal descent, by Miss T. E. Sharpe, (London, 1881) part ii, p. 17. C') In it he mentions no relative whatever; leaves ;^I0,000 to Mrs. Ann Smyth " who has a country house near the Red Cow at Hammersmith," and all his estates to John Harrison, " now an infant, when he shall reach the age of 26," with rem. to (the child's mother) the said Ann Smyth. She ^.31 Oct. 1742, aged 49. The son, John Newport (formerly Harrison), was a lunatic in 1742, and d. in that condition at Chelsea, 29 Apr. 1783, in his 63rd year. See notes to their burials in Chester's IVestm. Abbey Registers, and see Garbutt's History of JVem, p. 107. (■=) Richard Newport, the next eldest br., is generally stated to have sue. in 1734, but he d. v.p. and unm., 3 Dec. 17 16. His will, dat. 27 Aug., was pr. 7 Dec. 17 16. if) He was a Whig until 1793, after which date he supported Pitt, and may be regarded as a Tory. V.G.
