John Burridge (c.1681–1753) of London and Lyme Regis, Dorset was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1710 to 1728.
[1] Burridge became a Freeman of Lyme Regis 1704, and obtained a political interest of his own by making a loan of £300 to the corporation and securing a mortgage on the town's waterworks.
At the beginning of 1708, Burridge was one of the merchants whose complaints about shipping losses led to an inquiry in the Lords into the shortage of cruisers and convoys.
On 15 August 1730, he applied to Walpole for assistance from the secret service funds on the grounds that he had served in parliament for nearly 20 years and had received little in return.
In 1746 he petitioned George II in extravagant language, claiming that Walpole had promised him, in 1731, a further ‘secret service sum of £1,000’, which had not been paid.