Robin Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman
{{Short description|British politician and peer (born 1930)}}
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| name = The Viscount Bridgeman
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| office1 = Member of the House of Lords
| status1 = Lord Temporal
| term_label1 = as a hereditary peer
| term_start1 = 20 January 1983{{thin space|{{cite web |title=Viscount Bridgeman |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/3515/career |publisher=House of Lords |access-date=29 January 2024}}}}
| term_end1 = 11 November 1999
| predecessor1 = The 2nd Viscount Bridgeman
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| term_label2 = as an elected hereditary peer
| term_start2 = 11 November 1999
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| birth_name = Robin John Orlando Bridgeman
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1930|12|5|df=y}}
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| father = Geoffrey John Orlando Bridgeman
| mother = Mary Meriel Gertrude Talbot
| spouse = {{marriage|Harriet Turton|1966}}
| occupation = Chartered accountant, peer, politician
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Robin John Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FCA}} (born 5 December 1930), is a British hereditary peer and politician. He is a member of the House of Lords, and sits as a Conservative.
Background
Bridgeman is the son of Brigadier Geoffrey Bridgeman and Mary Meriel Gertrude Talbot, and the grandson of William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman. He was educated at Eton. He served in the Rifle Brigade in the years 1950 and 1951, commissioned as second lieutenant, and in the Royal Green Jackets reaching the rank of lieutenant.
Career
In 1958, Lord Bridgeman became a chartered accountant. He was partner of Fenn and Crosthwaite in 1973, and of Henderson Crosthwaite from 1975 to 1986. From 1988 to 1990, he was director of Guinness Mahon, and from 1988 to 1994 director of Nestor-BNA. He has further been director of The Bridgeman Art Library since 1972.
Bridgeman is a past chairman of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library and treasurer of the New England Company and the Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust. He is also a chairman of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth and trustee of Music at Winchester. Between 1992 and 2000, he was special trustee of the Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Hospital Authority.
Lord Bridgeman is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He succeeded his uncle, the 2nd Viscount, to the titles on 17 November 1982 and is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers in the House of Lords, where he sits for the Conservative Party. He is a spokesman on Home Affairs and a Government Whip.
Family
Lord Bridgeman has been married to Victoria Harriet Lucy Turton, daughter of Ralph Meredyth Turton, since 10 December 1966. They have four sons:
- Hon. William Orlando Caspar Bridgeman (1968–2001)
- Hon. Luke Robinson Orlando Bridgeman (born 1971, heir apparent)
- Hon. Esmond Francis Ralph Orlando Bridgeman (born 1974)
- Hon. Orlando Henry Geoffrey Bridgeman (born 1983)
Notes
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=27120 |title=DodOnline |access-date=12 November 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208040528/http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=27120 |archive-date=8 December 2006}}
- [http://www.conservatives.com/People/Peers/Bridgeman_Robin.aspx Viscount Bridgeman profile] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520014015/http://www.conservatives.com/People/Peers/Bridgeman_Robin.aspx |date=20 May 2009 }}, Conservative Party website; Retrieved 17 July 2014.
- {{Hansard-contribs|mr-robin-bridgeman|Viscount Bridgeman}}
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Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:Rifle Brigade officers
Category:Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Category:English Roman Catholics
Category:Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers
Category:Royal Green Jackets officers
Category:Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999
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