BRIDGEMAN, WILLIAM CLIVE BRIDGEMAN, 1ST VISCOUNT (1864-1935), British politician, was born in London Dec. 31, 1864, and educated at Eton and Trinity college, Cam bridge. He became M. P. for the Oswestry division in 1906. He was a junior lord of the Treasury in the first coalition Government and afterwards assistant director of the war trade department. Under Mr. Lloyd George he became successively parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Labour (1916) and to the board of trade (1919) and was secretary of the mines department (192o 22). In 1923 he became an ecclesiastical commissioner. In the Conservative ministry of Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Baldwin he was home secretary. His action in ordering the deportation and intern ment in Ireland of Irish prisoners in England was declared illegal by the court of appeal, and an Indemnity bill was passed for his protection. Having become, in Nov. 1924, first lord of the Admi ralty in Mr. Baldwin's second ministry, he revived the proposal for establishing a dockyard at Singapore. He was created a Viscount on June 3,