Gerald Michael Orlando Bridgeman, 6th Earl of Bradford, TD, DL, JP (29 September 1911 – 30 August 1981), styled Viscount Newport between 1915 and 1957, was a British peer, soldier, and arboriculturist.
[1] Bradford was born at 83 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London,[2] the only son of Orlando Bridgeman, Viscount Newport and his wife, Margaret, Viscountess Newport (née Bruce), eldest daughter of Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare.
His godparents were Margaret Hamilton-Russell, Viscountess Boyne; his aunt Eva Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (then Hon.
[5] Bridgeman was educated at Harrow School and went then to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1932.
[5] In 1975, he received the Bledisloe Gold Medal for Landowners by the Royal Agricultural Society of England.