BARING, Mrs Peter CBE (Teresa (Tessa) Anne nee BRIDGEMAN) 1937-2019

[Richard R]

From the Times of 29 May 2019: BARING Tessa (nee Bridgeman) died on 25th May 2019, aged 81. Funeral at 3pm, on 18th June, at St John'S Notting Hill. All welcome. No flowers. Donations to St Michael's Fellowship, 136 Streatham High Street, London....

She was d of Hon Sir Maurice Richard BRIDGEMAN KBE (1904-80) s of 1st Viscount BRIDGEMAN (1864-1935), and Diana Mary Erica (1912-79) d of Capt Humphrey Minto WILSON (1883-1961) by his 1907 m (reg Q2 London) to Gladys MERTON (1883-1978). She m 1960 Peter (b 1935) s of Francis Anthony BARING (1909-40, gs of 1st Baron REVELSTOKE and scion of the SHAFTESBURY, GLENGALL & COWPER earls, DONEGALL marquesses, MARLBOROUGH dukes etc), and Lady Rose Gwendoline Louisa McDONNELL (1909-93) d of 7th Earl of ANTRIM & scion of the GREY earls etc), and had three sons.

[colinp]

Obituary in Daily Telegraph 13 June 2019 - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/06/12/tessa-baringanimating-force-behind-several-charities-dedicated/

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Tessa Baring, who has died aged 81, might have settled for a life of ease; instead, she gave herself unstintingly to the help and support of the less fortunate.

She was born Teresa Anne Bridgeman on October 25 1937, the second of four daughters of Sir Maurice Bridgeman, chairman of British Petroleum in the 1960s.

The Bridgeman family is well represented in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Tessa’s grandfather, William Clive Bridgeman – the second name recalling a connection with Lord Clive of India – had served as Home Secretary from 1922 to 1924, and then from 1924 to 1929 as First Lord of the Admiralty in Stanley Baldwin’s Conservative administration.

In this latter capacity Bridgeman successfully resisted pressure from Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, to cut down the shipbuilding programme. In 1929 he was rewarded with a Viscountcy.

Meanwhile his formidable wife Caroline had been created DBE for promoting the integration of women – partially enfranchised in 1918 – within the Conservative Party.

Tessa Bridgeman attracted many suitors before marrying Peter Baring in 1960, a match which proved strong and enduring.

Tessa Baring was appointed CBE in 1998

Peter Baring survives her, together with their three sons.

Tessa Baring, October 25 1937, died May 25 2019

On Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:44:43 UTC+1, Richard R wrote: