Sir Maurice Richard Bridgeman KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (26 January 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British

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 businessman and civil servant.

The third son of the 1st Viscount Bridgeman and Caroline Bridgeman, and younger brother of the 2nd Viscount

Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman

Major-General Robert Clive Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman KBE, CB, DSO, MC, JP , styled The Honourable between 1929 and 1935, was a British peer and soldier.-Background:...

, he was educated at Eton College

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, Berkshire

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 and at Trinity College, Cambridge

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.

In 1939, Bridgeman was petroleum

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 advisor to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, and from 1944 to 1946 Principal Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power. From 1960 to 1969, he was chairman of British Petroleum.

Bridgeman was honored as a Commander

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 of the Order of the British Empire

Order of the British Empire

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 in 1946 and as a Knight Commander in 1964. He was also a Knight

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 of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

Bridgeman married Diana Mary Erica Wilson, daughter of Humphrey Minto Wilson, on 23 February 1933. They had four daughters.