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William Edward Wilfred Bridger

Formerly Physician Superintendent, Mendip Hospital, Wells, Somerset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Henry Rollin
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , April 2000 , pp. 158
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Dr Bridger was born in September 1914. He studied medicine at Guy's and qualified MRCS Eng.LRCP London in 1938, and graduated MB.BS London in 1939.

Drawn to psychiatry, he obtained the DPM Eng. in 1940, but his career was interrupted by the Second World War. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps reaching the rank of Major, with the responsibility of Adviser in Psychiatry to the South-East Asia command.

In 1944 Bridger was awarded the MD and in 1971 was elected to the Foundation Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Inter alia, he served as Deputy Superintendent at Fair Mile Hospital, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, and then as Physician Superintendent at Mendip Hospital, Wells, Somerset. His interest in forensic psychiatry led to his appointment as Visiting Psychiatrist to HM Prison Shepton Mallett.

He died aged 84, in June 1999.

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