John Bridges ( 1666 - 1724 )

Birth: Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire, England (1666) Death: Lincoln's Inn, London (16 March 1724) Profession: Barrister Research Field: Topography, antiquities Education: Trinity College, Oxford (matriculated 1683); Middle Temple (admitted 1684) Career: Called to the Bar (1691); Solicitor of Customs (1695); ordained deacon (1703); Commissioner of Excise (1712); Cashier of Excise (1715); Bencher of Lincoln's Inn (1719); Governor of the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals; spent several thousand pounds on collecting information for a history of Northamptonshire; his manuscripts are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Freemason, ostensible member of Lodge at Bear and Harrow, Butcher Row, Temple Bar, London Memberships: FSA (1718) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 7/04/1708 Council: 1712, 1715, 1717.