George Thomas Broadbridge, 1st Baron Broadbridge, (13 February 1869 – 17 April 1952), was a British
Conservative Party
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politician, most prominently in the
City of London
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.
Broadbridge was sometime
Alderman
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of the
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Ward of the City and then
Sheriff of the City of London
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from 1933 to 1934 and became Master of the
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that year. He then became
Lord Mayor of London
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in 1936 and on leaving that office a year later, was created a
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.
He was elected unopposed as
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for the
City of London
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at a by-election in April 1938,
and held the seat until September 1945 when he was raised to the peerage as
Baron Broadbridge
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. On his death in 1952, he was succeeded in the title by his son
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.
![Lichfield Court](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Lichfield_Court.jpg)
In 1933, he acquired a Queen Anne building, Lichfield House, in Richmond which he demolished and replaced by two blocks of flats, Lichfield Court, totalling 211 flats in all. These were built in the Art Deco style and are now Grade II listed.
Lichfield Court
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Arms
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