Arthur Bridges

Arthur Dalgety Bridges, (19 November 1901 – 22 May 1968) was an Australian Chartered accountant, company director and politician.

After being educated at Fort Street Boy's High School, Bridges worked for his brother on a citrus farm near Yenda, New South Wales.

Becoming recognised as a leading financial adviser, Bridges served as a director of numerous companies in a variety of areas.

While in parliament, Bridges was vice-president of the Royal Blind Society an honorary secretary of Blinded Ex-serviceman's Club, a committee member of Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, the vice-president of Young Men's Christian Association and a fellow of Senate of University of Sydney from 1967 until 1968.

On his death, Premier Askin noted that he had "an apparently inexhaustible energy which was a source of wonder to all who knew him" while the leader of the opposition Labor Party, Pat Hills, lamented: "Of all the sad occasions which have come upon this venerable House of Parliament, none was so universally felt as the news of the death of our late colleague".