Background
PLOWDEN, Lady Bridget Horatia was born on May 5, 1910. Daughter of late Admiral Sir H. W. Richmond and Lady Richmond.
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Lady Bridget Horatia PLOWDEN
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Education
Downe House.
Career
Director Trust House Forte Limited. 1961-1972; Justice of the Peace, Inner London Area Juvenile Panel 1962-1971. Chairman Central Advisory Council for Education (England) 1963-1966, Working Ladies Guild, Professional Classes Aid Council 1978-1986, Advisory Committee for Education of Romany and other Travellers 1970-1983 (President •983-), Metropolitan Architectural Consortium for Education, Board of Governors Philippa Fawcett College, of Education 1967-1976, Robert Montefiore Comprehensive School 1968-1979.
Company-opted.
Chairman ILEA School Sub-Committee 1967-1970. Vice-Chairman Governor British Broadcasting Corporation 1970-1975. Chairman International Business Alliance 1975-1980, Manpower Services Commission North. London Area Manager Board 1983-1988.
President Pre-Schools Playgroups Association 1972-1982 (Vice-President since 1982), Harding Housing Association.
President National Institute of Adult Continuing Education 1980-1988. President RELATE (formerly National Marriage Guidance Council) since 1982.
Liveryman, Goldsmiths Company since 1979. Fellow, Royal Television Society since 1980.
Honorary Fellow, College, of Preceptors 1973, Vice-President Institute of Preceptors 1984, President 1987.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (Leicester) 1968, (Reading) 1970, (Open University) 1974, (London) 1976. Honorary Doctor of Letters (Loughborough) 1976.
Membership
Education Committee Inner London Education Authority 1967-1973. National Theatre Board 1976-1988.
Connections
Married Edwin Noel Plowden (Lord Plowden in 1933.
