Caroline Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman


Caroline Beatrix Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman, DBE, JP was an English aristocrat, political activist, and churchwoman.

Life

Born to Hon. Cecil Thomas Parker, son of the 6th Earl of Macclesfield, and Rosamond Esther Harriet Longley, daughter of Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Thomas Longley, she married the 1st Viscount Bridgeman on 30 April 1895 in Eccleston, Chester, England. As a result of her marriage, she was styled as Viscountess Bridgeman on 18 June 1929.
She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1924, after which she was also known as Dame Caroline Bridgeman. Bridgeman held the office Justice of Peace and was a governor of the BBC between 1935 and 1939. She died on 26 December 1961 of undisclosed causes, aged 88.

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