Bridgman, Laura, a deaf, dumb, and blind child, born in New Hampshire, U.S.; noted for the surprising development of intellectual faculty notwithstanding these drawbacks; Dickens gives an account of her in his “American Notes” (1829‒1889).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of * Bridgwater