{{Short description|English merchant, politician, philanthropist and slave trader (1636–1721)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Matthew Brickdale | other_names = | image = Matthew Brickdale Portrait.png | image_size = | caption = Portrait by Henry Singleton | birth_name = Matthew Brickdale of Clifton and Taunton | birth_date = {{birth date|1735|4|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Bristol, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1831|9|8|1735|4|30|df=yes}} | death_place = Bristol, England | occupation = politician | office1 = Member of Parliament for Bristol | term_start1 = 1768 | term_end1 = 1774 | predecessor1 = Jarrit Smyth | successor1 = Edmund Burke | office2 = Member of Parliament for Bristol | term_start2 = 1780 | term_end2 = 1790 | predecessor2 = Henry Cruger | successor2 = Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort | party = Tory | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relations = | website = | footnotes = | employer = | height = | weight = }} '''Matthew Brickdale'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Matthew Brickdale |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644151 |website=Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery |access-date=24 December 2021}}</ref> (30 April 1735{{spaced ndash}}8 September 1831) was an English politician who was a Member of Parliament for Bristol from 1768 to 1774 and from 1780 to 1790.<ref>{{cite web |title=Members 1754-1790 |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/research/members/members-1754-1790 |website=historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=24 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=BRICKDALE, Matthew (1735-1831), of Clifton, Glos. and Taunton, Som. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/brickdale-matthew-1735-1831 |website=historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=24 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baigent |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Bradley |first2=James E. |title=The Social Sources of Late Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism: Bristol in the 1770s and 1780s. |journal=The English Historical Review |date=October 2009 |volume=124 |issue=510 |pages=1075–1108 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cep222 |issn=0013-8266}}</ref>
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