Henry Bedingfield (judge)

Sir Henry Bedingfield (1632 – 6 February 1687) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660 and from 1685 to 1686.

He was briefly Chief Justice of the Common Pleas at the end of his life.

He was educated at Norwich Grammar School and admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1650.

The following year he was made a freeman of Dunwich, enabling him to be elected to the Convention Parliament in 1660.

[2] In 1683, he presented an address from Dunwich, abhorring the Rye House Plot.