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I confidently expect that we [civil servants] shall continue to be grouped with mothers-in-law and Wigan Pier as one of the recognized objects of ridicule.
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Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
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Born:
August 4, 1892
Died:
August 27, 1969
(aged 77)
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Edward Ettingdene Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges was a British civil servant.
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