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Brydges, Henry, 1708-1777
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1708-1777
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BRYDGES, HENRY, 2ND DUKE OF CHANDOS, sixth son of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (qv), and his first wife; bap 1 Feb 1707/8; adm. Jul 1717; in under school list 1720; St. John’s Coll. Camb., adm. fellow commoner 1 Feb 1723/4; Grand Tour 1724-7; Cornet, Vicars’ Dragoons 25 Dec 1726, res 1727; MP Hereford 1727-34, Steyning 1734-41, Bishop’s Castle 1741 - 9 Aug 1744; attached to Household of Frederick, Prince of Wales, as First Lord of the Bedchamber 26 Feb 1729 – Oct 1742, and Groom of the Stole 1 Oct 1742-51; KB 12 Jan 1731/2; succ. his father as 2nd Duke of Chandos 9 Aug 1744; Grand Master of the Order of Freemasons 1738-9; m. 1st, 21 Dec 1728 Lady Mary Bruce, dau. of Charles Bruce, 3rd Earl of Ailesbury; m. 2nd, 25 Dec 1744 Anne Jefferies, of the Pelican Inn, Newbury, Berks. (see Notes and Queries, 4th ser., vi, 179); m. 3rd, 28 Jul 1767 Elizabeth, second dau. of Sir John Major, Bart., MP; d. 28 Nov 1777.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.