Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet

[4] In 1763, he entered the British House of Commons for Kent, representing the constituency as Member of Parliament (MP) until 1774.

[5] He was for several years Receiver General of the land tax for Kent.

[6] On 11 June 1765, he married Fanny Fowler, daughter of Edmund Fowler and heiress to the title Baron Fitzwalter, at St George's, Hanover Square in London.

[6] Bridges died, aged 57 in Portman Square in London[10] and was buried in Goodnestone.

[citation needed] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son William, who after the death of his older brother in 1781 had taken the additional Christian name Brook by licence of the archbishop.