Lieutenant-Colonel Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford, DL, JP (6 October 1873 – 21 March 1957),[1] styled Viscount Newport from 1898 to 1915, was a British peer, Conservative politician and soldier.

[5][6] Bridgeman joined the 3rd (Edinburgh Light Infantry Militia) Battalion, Royal Scots,[7] and was appointed a captain on 29 April 1899.

The battalion was embodied in December 1899 to serve in the Second Boer War, and in early March 1900 left Queenstown, Ireland on the SS Oriental for South Africa.

[8] He fought in the war after arrival in 1900, and again in 1902, returning from Cape Town to the United Kingdom with most of his regiment in May 1902.

[7][11] Having joined the House of Lords on his father's death, Bridgeman became Government Whip in 1919, a post he held until 1924.