William Bridgeman (1864-1935; ODNB), MP (C) Oswestry, 1906-29; Unionist whip, 1911-16; parliamentary secretary, ministry of labour, 1916-19, board of trade, 1919-20; secretary, mines department, 1920-22; home secretary 1922-4; first lord of the admiralty, 1924-9; viscount, 1929; active in Church affairs, and in the parliamentary church committee; admirer of 'patriotic' labour bodies; member, archbishops' committee on industrial problems, 1917-18; introduced the revised prayer book in the house of commons, 1927; chairman, National Society, 1931-5; chairman, BBC, 1935. See also Volume 64, 65.

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