Caroline Bridgeman, neé Parker (1873-1961; ODNB), Conservative political activist and churchwoman; m. 1895 William Bridgeman, later a Unionist MP and minister, viscount 1929; prominent in women's Unionist bodies, and wartime agricultural committees; chair, Women's Unionist Organization, 1918-24, and first female chair, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1926-7; DBE 1924; member, house of laity, 1925-60, vice-chair, 1942-7; member, archbishops' commission on church and state, 1930-5; succeeded her husband as a BBC governor, 1935-9. See also Volume 64.

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• 22 Nov 1928
• 12 Nov 1929