[2] Bridgeman entered the English House of Commons in 1669, having won a by-election for Horsham.
King Charles II, created him a baronet, of Ridley, in the County of Chester on 12 November 1673.
[4] Bridgeman died intestate in 1701 and was survived by his wife for few weeks, she dying on 8 June; both were buried in the Parish Church of St. Michael, Coventry, where a plaque was erected in her honour by her friend Eliza Samwell.
[4] His older daughter Charlotte (1681-3 March 1718) married Richard Symes of Blackheath as his second wife in 1703.
His younger daughter Penelope was the second wife of Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington, a younger son of Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford, whose title later was revived for a descendant of Bridgemans older brother John.