here a reputation for harshness and resolve, which continued in his time as First Lord of the Admiralty from November 1924 to June 1929. Throughout, he was one of Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin's closest allies. Bridgeman retired from the Commons in 1929, and on 18 June that year was created Viscount Bridgeman, of Leigh in the County of Shropshire. Later life In his later years, he served as chairman of various commissions and committees, as well as, briefly, Chairman of the BBC. He became Justice of Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire, and received an Honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Cambridge in 1930. Family Lord Bridgeman married Caroline Beatrix Parker, daughter of Hon. Cecil Thomas Parker and Rosamond Esther Harriet Longley, daughter of the Most Rev. Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Eccleston, Chester, on 30 April 1895. They had four children: Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman (1896–1982) Brigadier Hon. Geoffrey Bridgeman (1898–1974) Anne Bridgeman (1900–1900) Hon. Sir Maurice Bridgeman (1904–1980) Lord Bridgeman died in Leigh Manor, Shropshire, on 14 August 1935, aged 70, and was buried in the churchyard at Hope near Minsterley three days later. The Viscountess Bridgeman died in December 1961. References Sources Williamson, Philip. The modernisation of conservative politics: the diaries and letters of William Bridgeman 1904-1935 (Historians' Press, 1988). External links 1864 births 1935 deaths BBC Governors Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Deputy Lieutenants of Shropshire English justices of the peace First Lords of the Admiralty Members of London County Council Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs who were granted peerages Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Members of the London School Board William Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Trade People from Oswestry Viscounts created by George V