William Clive Bridgeman , Venn's entry reads: Bridgeman, William Clive. College: TRINITY Entered: Michs. 1884 Born: Dec. 31, 1864 Died: Aug. 14, 1935 Adm. pens. at TRINITY, May 23, 1884. S. and h. of The Hon. John Robert Orlando (1849), R. of Weston-under-Lizard, Staffs. B. Dec. 31, 1864, in London. School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1884; Scholar, 1887; B.A. 1887; M.A. 1892; Hon. LL.D. 1930. Cricket `blue,' 1884. Assistant Master at Eton. Private Secretary to Lord Knutsford, Secretary for the Colonies, 1889-92; to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1895-1902. Served on the London School Board, 1897-1904; afterwards on the London County Council. M.P. for Oswestry, 1906-29. A Lord of the Treasury and Assistant Director of the War Trade Department, 1915-16. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, 1916-18; to the Board of Trade, 1919-20. First Secretary of Mines, 1920-2. P.C., 1920. Home Secretary, 1922-4. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1924-9. Leader of the British Delegation at the Conference on Armaments at Geneva, 1927. Created Viscount Bridgeman of Leigh, Co. Salop, June 18, 1929. J.P., D.L. Fellow of Eton College, 1929. Chairman of a Committee of Inquiry into the working of the Post Office, 1932; of the B.B.C. An Elder Brother of Trinity House. President of the M.C.C., 1931. Married and had issue. Died Aug. 14, 1935, at Leigh. (Burke, P. and B.; The Times, Aug. 15, 1935.)
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