BRIDPORT

Samuel Hood , 2 Baron. b. Cat he ring ton, Hants. 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1809; succeeded 3 May 1814. d. Cricket St. Thomas, Chard, Somerset 6 Jany. 1868. BRIDSON, Thomas Ridgway ( son of Paul Bridson of Douglas, Isle of Man who d. 1820 ). b. 1795; owner of bleach works near Bolton foremost establishment of the kind in the world; invented the patent “stenter” or elastic finishing machine which much advanced mechanism of the trade; mayor of Bolton 1847–8. d. 24 Jany. 1863. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i , 127–38 (1865).