Tobias Bridge

Sir Tobias Bridge fought for Parliament in the English Civil War, and served the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum. After the Restoration, he served King Charles II.[1]

During the English Civil War, Bridge fought for Parliament under Fairfax. During the Interregnum, he was an active supporter of Oliver Cromwell served on several influential committees. From 1655 and 1659, he was a Colonel of Horse, and on the death of Charles Worsley, he succeeded to the governorship of Cheshire, Lancashire and Staffordshire district during the second half of 1656 Rule of the Major-Generals.[1]

During the Second Commonwealth, in the immediate prelude to the restoration of the monarchy, he served as a major in Sir Lord Lockhart's Regiment of Horse at Dunkirk, and after the restoration, he was appointed Captain of Horse at Dunkirk, a post where he took direct orders from the Governor of Dunkirk and King Charles II. He held the post until 1662 when Dunkirk was sold to France. On his return from Dunkirk, he was commissioned into the Duke of Richmond's Regiment as a captain.[1]

A year after he was knighted in 1666, Bridge went to Barbados as colonel of his regiment. In 1673, he commanded the local land forces against the Baron of Tobago in one of the many wars over that island. In 1674, he was admitted to the council of Barbados. He probably died in Bridgetown, a town named after him and the capital of Barbados.[1]

Notes
  1. Pape p. 150
gollark: * no dedicated support needed
gollark: What I'd really like is the ability to just go around defining operators arbitrarily like in Haskell, making the operator overloading basically just a consequence of traits with no dedicated support.
gollark: Well, they are generally Rust's standard method for overloading things/implementing shared behavior, so it's more sensible than magically named methods.
gollark: Operator overloading: traits are more verbose, but make *a lot more sense* and are more consistent.
gollark: Ternary statements: I agree with that.

References
  • Pape, Thomas (1938). Newcastle-under-Lyme in Tudor and early Stuart times, Manchester university press ([Manchester]).


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