His temper nearly cost him his career, while he managed to make himself so unpopular with his constituents while MP for Rochester that Philip Stephens, the Secretary to the Admiralty, wrote to Lord Hardwicke saying that the voters ‘had conceived an utter aversion to our Admiral Sir Thomas Pye, and I find they would have taken anybody who offered himself in preference to him’.
Philip II of Spain | Sir | Sir Walter Scott | baronet | Philip K. Dick | Baronet | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | John Philip Sousa | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Philip II | Philip Roth | Philip IV of Spain | Philip II of Macedon | Philip | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Philip Bradbourn | 1st United States Congress | Philip Catherine | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Prince Philip | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Philip V of Spain | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Sir Robert Peel |
The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.
For over 50 years Copley has been the partner of John Hugh Chadwyck-Healey (born 1922), grandson of Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet.
Pollock was the fifth son of Mr George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock (1st Baronet, of Hatton) (elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass).