Reginald Bridgeman

Reginald Francis Orlando Bridgeman CMG, MVO (14 October 1884 – 11 December 1968) He was educated at Harrow School and the University of Cambridge.

Career He was despatched as honorary attaché to Madrid in 1903 and became a clerk in the Foreign Office already in the next year. In 1908, Bridgeman joined Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service and became third secretary at the embassy in Paris. Bridgeman was promoted to second secretary three years later, was moved to Athens in 1916, but returned already in the following year. and was transferred as chargè d'affaires to Vienna in the next year. After a visit to India he left the service influenced by his experiences there and sympathised with the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was head of the British delegation sent by the House of Commons to the League Against Imperialism (LAI) in Brussels in 1927 He contested Uxbridge for Labour in the 1929 general election, but was expelled from the party short time after, because of his membership in the LAI. and was adopted as Labour's prospective candidate for Hendon. and in 1917 a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. On 4 June 1923, he married Olwen Elizabeth Jones, oldest daughter of Maurice Jones, and had by her four children, two sons and two daughters. Bridgeman died in 1968 and was buried at Tong, Shropshire.