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)
Bibliography
Endacott, George Beer. 1962. A biographical sketch-book of early Hong Kong. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press.
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