BRIDGE, CHARLES JOSEPH (?-1876) was on the Liverpool stock exchange before coming to New Zealand. In 1854 he bought the Homebrook station in Canterbury, and by 1865 had a fine freehold property of 1,400 acres upon which the town of Southbridge was laid out. Bridge was on the Canterbury Provincial Executive for a few months in 1859. He died in 1876.

Reference: Volume 1, page 63

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