Partnership between John Brickwood (long-time chief clerk to John Strettell, who was a merchant providing trade goods to Canadian fur traders) and Thomas Pattle (a returned East India employee).

British composer and lyricist Leslie Bricusse’s career has included writing songs for both stage and film musicals. Born in Pinner in Greater London’s Harrow borough, he began his education at University College School; he went on to Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge to study modern and medieval languages; while there became involved in the “Footlights” revue as secretary (1952-1953) and president (1954). After university, he partnered with actor/singer Anthony Newley during the 1960s and 1970s. Calling themselves Brinkman and Newburg, the two created two hit musicals, “Stop the World – I Want to Get Off,” which was made into a movie in 1966, and “The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd.” Many famous singers, including Sammy Davis Junior, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey and Diana Krall had hits singing their songs. They made the soundtracks for such films as “Dr. Dolittle,” “Goodbye, Mr. Chips,” and “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” They collected numerous awards for their work, including an Oscar for best original song for “Talk to the Animals” from Dr. Dolittle. Bricusse went on to work with Henry Mancini on Victor/Victoria for which they won an Oscar in 1982 for Best Adaptation and Original Song Score. Eight other Oscar nominations and four Tony nominations came to Bricusse, as well as eight Ivor Novello awards, the most prestigious of British music prizes, and another British one, the Kennedy Award for consistent excellence in British song writing. He is one of only four Britons to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Bridge & Penn was a firm that arranged auctions of estates and merchandise.

British organist Joseph Bridge, born in Rochester in Kent, was the second son in his family to follow a career as an organist. His was a distinguished career although he was not knighted like his older brother Frederick, organist at Westminster Abbey. When his older brother Frederick began as the organist at Manchester Cathedral, Joseph became his assistant in 1869. He had already studied with John Hopkins, the organist at Rochester Cathedral where his father was vicar choral. In 1876-1877 Joseph was an organ scholar at Exeter College at Oxford University. He then became organist for the Chester Cathedral, a post he held until 1925. In addition to his duties as organist, he was a professor of music at Durham University, composed for the organ, lectured on historical topics, and was active in many music-oriented organizations such as the Friends of the Musicians Chapel at St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate across from the Old Bailey; his name is inscribed in the Remembrance book there, along with Britain’s most noteworthy organists. In 1883 he founded the Chester Orchestral Society whose orchestra he conducted and for which he organized a performance of the Messiah with well-known soloists in 1884. He wrote several historical articles for the Journal of the Chester Archaeological and Historical Society and for the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. In 1928 he was President of the British Musicological Association.

Robert (Seymour) Bridges; b. Oct. 23, 1844, Walmer, Kent, England, d. Apr. 21, 1930, Chilswell, Oxford, England.