Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges Quotes

Edward Ettingdere Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges, was a British civil servant.

✵ 4. August 1892 – 27. August 1969
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Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges Quotes

“I confidently expect that we shall continue to be grouped with mothers-in-law and Wigan Pier as one of the recognized objects of ridicule.”

Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges

On the civil service, in Portrait of a Profession: The Civil Service Tradition (1950)

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