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Richard Whalley Bridgman (c.1761–1820) was an English attorney and writer on law.

Life

Richard Whalley Bridgman was baptised on 9 March 1762, the son of Richard Bridgman and Sarah Whalley. He was an attorney and was employed as a clerk of the Grocers' Company in 1787. By June 1796 he had embezzled over £2,317, which he could not repay. He was declared a bankrupt and was subsequently imprisoned in Fleet jail before his release in 1804.

He was already a widower by 1797 and on 29 August 1797 he married Ann Lanty of Greenwich at St Martin in the fields. He died at Bath, Somerset 16 November 1820, in his fifty-ninth year. He was buried at St. Swithin, Walcot on 22 November 1820. The burial register states he lived in Walcot Parade (No.2), which survives as a grade 2 listed building.

Works

He left the following works, published between 1798 and 1813:

  • Thesaurus Juridicus; containing the Decisions of the several Courts of Equity, &c., systematically digested from the Revolution to 1798, 2 vols. 1799–1800.
  • Reflections on the Study of the Law, 1804.
  • Dukes' Law of Charitable Uses, &c., 1805.
  • An Analytical Digested Index of the Reported Cases in the several Courts of Equity, 1805, 2 vols.; 2nd edition, 1813, 3 vols.; 3rd edition, edited by his son, R. O. Bridgman, 1822, 3 vols.
  • Supplement to the Analytical Digested Index, &c., 1807.
  • A Short View of Legal Bibliography, to which is added a Plan for classifying a Public or Private Library, 1807.
  • A Synthesis of the Law of Nisi Prius, 1809, 8vo.
  • Judgment of the Common Pleas in Benyon against Evelyn, 1811.
  • An annotated edition of Sir Francis Buller's Introduction to the Law relative to Trials at Nisi Prius, 1817.

References

  1. "Register of baptisms, St. Botolph Aldgate 1753 - 1797". London Metropolitan Archives. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  2. Sidell, Pauline. "History of Grocers' Hall: Fascinating Fact 8 - Rogue Trader (from court minutes)". Grocers' Company. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  3. "The creditors who have proved their debts under a commission of bankrupt". The London Gazette. No. 13974. 24 January 1797. p. 81.
  4. "Prisoners in His Majesties prison of the Fleet". The London Gazette. No. 15725. 4 August 1804. p. 948.
  5. "The creditors of Richard Whalley Bridgman". The London Gazette. No. 15773. 19 January 1805. p. 99.
  6. Parish register of St Martin in the fields: Marriages 1794 - 1798. 1794.
  7. Parish register of St Swithin, Walcot: Burials 1819 - 1825. 1819.
  8. "1-20, WALCOT PARADE, Non Civil Parish - 1395536 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bridgman, Richard Whalley". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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