Geoffrey Bridgeman
ophthalmologist
.
Background and education
Born at
Bachelor of Surgery.[6]
Career
Bridgeman worked first as chief clinical assistant at
India and Burma Office and was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1933.[4] Bridgeman held membership of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and of the British Medical Association.[7]
Family
On 3 July 1929, Bridgeman married Mary Meriel Gertrude Talbot (18 January 1903 – 5 July 1974), daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir George John Talbot and Gertrude Harriot Cator.[8] The couple had three children, one son and two daughters:[8][9]
- Robin John Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman (b. 5 December 1930).
- Helena Mary Bridgeman (b. 2 November 1932), married firstly on 18 July 1953 and divorced in 1963 The Hon. Paul Asquith (4 January 1927 – 1984), son of Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, and Anne Stephanie Pollock, and married secondly James Francis Leslie Bayley, son of Thomas Eliot Bayley of Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 15 July 1963, living in 2003 at Wassall House, Rolvenden, Kent.
- Daphne Bridgeman (b. 9 April 1940), married on 4 December 1965 as his second wife William Howard Clive Montgomery of .
Mary died in 1961 and Bridgeman survived her until 1974.[8] His son Robin succeeded his uncle Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman, in his title in 1982.[8] His granddaughter is actress Flora Montgomery.[9]
Notes
- ^ S2CID 220210752.
- ^ a b c Fox-Davies (1929), p. 213.
- ^ PMC 1042648.
- ^ a b Who's Who (1963), p. 354.
- ^ "No. 30624". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 April 1918. p. 4411.
- ^ a b Cornelius (1988), p. 45.
- ^ Who's Who (1963), p. 355.
- ^ a b c d de Massue (1994), p. 287.
- ^ a b Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 499.
References
- Who's Who 1963. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1963.
- Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. Vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett.
- Cornelius, Eustace Hope (1988). Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1974–1982. London: Royal College of Surgeons of England. ISBN 0-902166-03-4.
- (Marquis of Ruvigny & Raineval) de Massue, Melville Henry (1994). Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Clarence Volume. London: Genealogical Publishing Co. ISBN 0-8063-1432-X.
