Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Bradford PC DL |
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The Earl of Bradford caricatured in Vanity Fair by Carlo Pellegrini, 1874.
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| Master of the Horse | |
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In office 7 March 1874 – 21 April 1880 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Ailesbury |
| Succeeded by | The Duke of Westminster |
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In office 1 July 1885 – 28 January 1886 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Marquess of Salisbury |
| Preceded by | The Duke of Westminster |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Cork |
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24 April 1819 Nottingham Place, Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 12 March 1898 (aged 78) Weston Park, Staffordshire, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Hon. Selina Weld-Forester (d. 1894) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Orlando George Charles Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford PC DL (24 April 1819 – 12 March 1898), styled Viscount Newport between 1825 and 1865, was a British courtier and Conservative politician. In a ministerial career spanning over thirty years, he notably served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1866 and 1868 and as Master of the Horse between 1874 and 1880 and again between 1885 and 1886.
Bridgeman was born at Nottingham Place, Marylebone, London, the eldest son of George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford and his wife Georgina Elizabeth Moncreiffe, daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 5th Baronet. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became known by the courtesy title Viscount Newport when his father succeeded in the earldom of Bradford in 1825.
Lord Newport was elected Member of Parliament for Shropshire South in 1842. In February 1852, he was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in Lord Derby's first administration, a post he held until the fall of the government in December of the same year, and again from 1858 to 1859 in Derby's second administration. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1852. In 1865, he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords. When Derby became prime minister for the third time in 1866, Lord Bradford was made Lord Chamberlain of the Household, an office he retained until December 1868, the last year under the premiership of Benjamin Disraeli. He again served under Disraeli as Master of the Horse between 1874 and 1880 and held the same office from 1885 to 1886 in Lord Salisbury's first administration.
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