Captain Francis Orlando Henry Bridgeman

  

 

Captain Francis Orlando Henry Bridgeman

1819-1895

P1821 Light Cavalry Saber

Bridgeman was the eldest son of Hon. Orlando Henry Bridgeman, the third son of Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford. After being educated at the Harrow School, he purchased an ensign’s commission in the 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) on the 28th of October, 1836. Bridgeman purchased a lieutenancy in that regiment in 1839. During this period, the regiment was posted to Gibraltar in 1837 and the West Indies in 1839. Bridgeman secured a captaincy by purchase in the 45th (Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot on the 30th of September, 1842. He exchanged into the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Regiment of Light Dragoons (Hussars) as a captain on the 29th of September, 1843. Bridgeman then retired from the regiment in December of 1844.

Lieutenant Celadon Charles Sutherland Brownlow

 

Lieutenant Celadon Charles Sutherland Brownlow

 1885-1948

 Dress Tunic, c. 1908

 

 Brownlow was the son of Colonel Celadon Charles Brownlow, CB, late of the Bengal Staff Corps and first cousin once removed to Field Marshal Sir Charles Henry Brownlow, GCB. Brownlow was gazetted to the Indian Army on the 24th of January in 1906. He was attached to the 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis) in March of 1907. The regiment was raised by Sir Charles Henry Brownlow as the 8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry in 1857, when then a lieutenant. In 1904 the regiment was designated as the 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry and Sir Charles Henry Brownlow was made Colonel of the Regiment. Brownlow was advanced to lieutenant on the 24th of April in 1908. He was placed on the Half-pay List in 1912 and left the service on the 1st of September 1914. Brownlow married Mary Ellen Lowes Dickinson, the granddaughter of the Victorian portrait painter Lowes Cato Dickinson in 1926. Brownlow then attended the Academie Julien in Paris in 1927 where he studied painting, emerging as a sporting and equestrian painter. He showed 141 pieces at a solo exhibition hosted by the Arlington Gallery in 1937 and exhibited at the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1942. Several of Brownlow's works are in the collections of the National Trust.

 

British and Native Officers, 1909

20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)

 

Lieut. Brownlow
 (center back row)

 

 

Charles Sutherland Brownlow

Footwork

Oil on board