Robin Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman

The Right Honourable The Viscount Bridgeman FCA
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 20 January 1983 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 2nd Viscount Bridgeman
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 9 April 2026
Election	1999
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	Robin John Orlando Bridgeman (1930-12-05)5 December 1930
Died	9 April 2026(2026-04-09) (aged 95)
Party	Conservative
Spouse	Harriet Turton ​ (m. 1966)​
Parent	Geoffrey Bridgeman (father)
Occupation	Chartered accountant peer

Knight of Malta ribbon

Robin John Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman (5 December 1930 – 9 April 2026), was a British hereditary peer and politician. He was a member of the House of Lords, and sat as a Conservative.

Background

Bridgeman was the son of Brigadier Geoffrey Bridgeman and Mary Meriel Gertrude Talbot, and the grandson of William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman. He was educated at Eton. He served in the Rifle Brigade in the years 1950 and 1951, commissioned as second lieutenant, and in the Royal Green Jackets reaching the rank of lieutenant.

Career

In 1958, Lord Bridgeman became a chartered accountant. He was partner of Fenn and Crosthwaite in 1973, and of Henderson Crosthwaite from 1975 to 1986. From 1988 to 1990, he was director of Guinness Mahon, and from 1988 to 1994 director of Nestor-BNA. He has further been director of The Bridgeman Art Library since 1972.

Bridgeman was a past chairman of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library and treasurer of the New England Company and the Florence Nightingale Aid in Sickness Trust. He was also a chairman of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth and trustee of Music at Winchester. Between 1992 and 2000, he was special trustee of the Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Hospital Authority.

He was a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He succeeded his uncle, the 2nd Viscount, to the titles on 17 November 1982 and was one of the ninety elected hereditary peers in the House of Lords, where he sat for the Conservative Party. He was a spokesman on Home Affairs and a Government Whip.

Bridgeman died in office twenty days prior to when provisions in the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 came into force that would have otherwise excluded him from the Lords.

Family

Bridgeman married Victoria Harriet Lucy Turton, daughter of Ralph Meredyth Turton, on 10 December 1966. They had four sons:

• Hon. William Orlando Caspar Bridgeman (1968–2001)
• Luke Robinson Orlando Bridgeman, 4th Viscount Bridgeman (born 1971)
• Hon. Esmond Francis Ralph Orlando Bridgeman (born 1974)
• Hon. Orlando Henry Geoffrey Bridgeman (born 1983)

Bridgeman died on 9 April 2026, at the age of 95.

External links

• "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 8 December 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
• Viscount Bridgeman profile Archived 20 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Conservative Party website; Retrieved 17 July 2014.
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Bridgeman