His grandson, Brook Bridges' daughter, Elizabeth, married Jane Austen's brother, and Austen visited them on the estate regularly.
It included residences of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle, Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet and William Henry Percy.
Sir | Sir Walter Scott | 3rd Rock from the Sun | baronet | Baronet | Peter Brook | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | South Carolina's 3rd congressional district | Nash Bridges | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Sir Robert Peel | Michigan's 3rd congressional district | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | Harry Bridges | 3rd United States Congress | Jeff Bridges | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | 3rd arrondissement of Marseille | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Beau Bridges | Stony Brook University | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | Michael Brook | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | Todd Bridges | Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex |
His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.
Born posthumously at Whitehall, he was the only son of Sir Brook Bridges, 2nd Baronet and his wife Anne Palmer, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Wingham.