Geoffrey Bridgeman

Brigadier The Honourable Geoffrey John Orlando Bridgeman MC (3 July 1898 – 15 October 1974), His mother Caroline was the daughter of Cecil Thomas Parker, younger son of Thomas Parker, 6th Earl of Macclesfield. From 1917 he fought in the First World War, being commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery. and after the end of the war retired as lieutenant.

Career Bridgeman worked first as chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital and then as ophthalmic surgeon at East Ham Memorial Hospital. Subsequently, he returned to St George's and became employed at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. Bridgeman held membership of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and of the British Medical Association.

Family On 3 July 1929, Bridgeman married Mary Meriel Gertrude Talbot (18 January 1903 – 5 July 1974), daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir George John Talbot and Gertrude Harriot Cator. Robin John Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman (b. 5 December 1930). Helena Mary Bridgeman (b. 2 November 1932), married firstly on 18 July 1953 and divorced in 1963 The Hon. Paul Asquith (4 January 1927 – 1984), son of Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone, and Anne Stephanie Pollock, and married secondly James Francis Leslie Bayley, son of Thomas Eliot Bayley of Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 15 July 1963, living in 2003 at Wassall House, Rolvenden, Kent. Daphne Bridgeman (b. 9 April 1940), married on 4 December 1965 as his second wife William Howard Clive Montgomery of Rosemount House and of Greyabbey, son of Major Hugh Edward Montgomery of Greyabbey, County Down, Deputy Lieutenant (DL), living in 2003 at Greyabbey, Newtownards, County Down.

Mary died in 1961 and Bridgeman survived her until 1974. His granddaughter is actress Flora Montgomery.