Bridget Cracroft-Eley

Bridget Cracroft-Eley

Bridget Katharine Cracroft-Eley, CVO, JP (29 October 1933 – 29 August 2008) was a former British secretary and farmer and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.

The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts and Rhona Clifton-Brown, she was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1989 to 1990. She was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire from 1995 until her death, and a Justice of the Peace. In 1995, Cracroft-Eley received an honorary doctorate by the De Montfort University and in 1997, she became High Steward of Lincoln Cathedral.

On 31 October 1959, she married Robert Peel Charles Cracroft-Eley (d. 1996), son of Charles Ryves Maxwell-Eley. They had two children, one son and one daughter.

She was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2008 New Year Honours.

References

*cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p18406.htm#i184057| title= thePeerage| accessdate= 2007-01-12
*cite web | url= http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/section.asp?docId=27647| title= www.lincolnshire.gov.uk| accessdate= 2007-01-12


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