Thomas Edward Bridgett (20 January 1829 – 17 February 1899) was an English Catholic priest, missionary preacher and historical writer.
He was the third son of Joseph Bridgett, a silk manufacturer of Colney Hatch, and his wife Mary (born Gregson).
He was in the sixth form at Tunbridge from 1845 to 1847, proceeding thence as Smythe exhibitioner to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted pensioner on 23 February 1847.
[2] He joined the Redemptorist Order, completing his novitiate at Saint-Trond in Belgium, and after a course of five years of theological study at Wittem, in The Netherlands;[3] in 1856 he was ordained priest and returned to England.
1890); in 1889 The True Story of the Catholic Hierarchy deposed by Queen Elizabeth, and in 1891 The Life and Writings of Sir Thomas More.