Political activist and churchwoman. Née Parker. Supported her husband's political campaign but also worked in her own right, for example as a BBC governor. She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of The British Empire (DBE) in 1924 and became Viscountess Bridgeman when her husband, William Clive Bridgeman, was created at the 1st Viscount Bridgeman in 1929. Our Picture source gives details of her family.
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Caroline Beatrix Bridgeman
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F N Hospital - Duchess of Albany
This stone was laid on January 18th 1909 by HRH the Duchess of Albany. Presid...
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William Hammond
In 1819 upper warden of the Drapers' Company and Governor of the Queen Elizabeth College Almshouses in Greenwich.
Greater London Council
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
Richard Courtney Balding
Born Camberwell. Employed as an insurance company director. Edwin Richard, his father, was MD of United Friendly Insurance Company. A 1938 London Gazette refers to UF at 42 Southwark Bridge Road. H...
Sir Clarendon Hyde
Sir Clarendon Hyde, the deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company in 1920.
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Joanna Baillie
Poet and dramatist, born Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Moved into Bolton House with her mother and sister in 1791 and lived there until her death. Buried at nearby St John's church, Church Row.
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