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William Thomas Bridges (1820–94)

Lawyer. Studied at Oxford. BA 1843; MA 1846. Student at the Middle Temple from 1844. Called to the bar 1847. Went to Hong Kong in 1851. Had a lucrative legal practice and engaged in money-lending at high interest rates. Acted as attorney-general and colonial secretary when the office-holders were on leave. Resigned in 1859 after being implicated in a number of scandals, and left Hong Kong in 1861.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1891 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG12/1705/63/25)

Endacott 1962

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestrylibraryedition.co.uk, accessed 27 November 2019)

London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1917 (Ancestrylibraryedition.co.uk, accessed 27 November 2019)