Robert Bridgeman , 2nd Viscount Bridgeman Major - General Robert Clive Bridgeman , 2nd Viscount Bridgeman KBE , CB , DSO , MC , JP ( 1 April 1896 – 17 November 1982 ) , styled The Honourable Robert Bridgeman between 1929 and 1935 , was a British peer and soldier . Background . Born in London and baptised at St Paul ' s Cathedral , he was the son of William Bridgeman , 1st Viscount Bridgeman and his wife Caroline Beatrix Parker , daughter of Honourable Cecil Thomas Parker . His youngest brother was Maurice Richard Bridgeman . He was educated at Eton College and in 1935 , he succeeded his father as viscount . Military career . First World War . Bridgeman became 2nd lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade ( Prince Consort ' s Own ) in 1914 and served during the First World War . He was promoted to lieutenant in 1916 and received the Military Cross in the next year . For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty , in so skilfully training and - leading his company in an attack as to inflict heavy casualties upon the enemy with hardly any personal losses . He afterwards displayed great resource in keeping his headquarters informed of the situation , in spite of heavy hostile barrage , during which he was wounded , but remained at his post , showing a fine example to all ranks . After the war , he was private secretary to his father in 1918 and became captain in 1921 . He graduated from staff college in 1928 and was then transferred as brevet - major to the 7th Infantry Brigade in 1932 . Bridgeman held this command until 1934 and became brevet lieutenant - colonel in the following year , having been simultaneously appointed to the War Office as a general staff officer . Second World War . Bridgeman retired on pay in 1937 , however was reactivated to the British Expeditionary Force with the outbreak of the Second World War . He was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order in 1940 and became first deputy director , then director - general of the British Home Guard as well as the Territorial Army in the next year . In 1942 , Bridgeman was promoted to colonel and temporary major - general . He was nominated deputy adjutant - general to the War Office in 1944 , a post he held until the end of the war . In 1951 , Bridgeman retired , having been granted the rank of honorary major - general . Later years . Bridgeman was invested as a Companion of Order of the Bath in the New Year ' s Honours 1944 , and became honorary colonel of the 4th Battalion , King ' s Shropshire Light Infantry in 1949 . He was awarded a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1954 and was invested a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem one year later . Having been before already Deputy Lieutenant , he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire in 1951 . Representing the county also Justice of the Peace , he held the Lord Lieutenantcy until 1970 . Bridgeman was president of the West Midland Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve Association in 1968 and the next year . Family . On 12 June 1930 , he married Mary Kathleen Lane Fox , second daughter of George Lane - Fox , 1st Baron Bingley , and had by her three daughters . He was succeeded in the viscountcy by his nephew Robin Bridgeman , the son of his younger brother Geoffrey . Lady Bridgeman died in 1981 . He died on 17 November 1982 aged eighty - six , and was buried in the churchyard at Hope near Minsterley , Shropshire .