Arthur Churchman, 1st Baron Woodbridge

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Charles Churchman, 1st Baron Woodbridge, DL (7 September 1867 – 3 February 1949), known as Sir Arthur Churchman, Bt, between 1917 and 1932, was a British tobacco manufacturer, soldier and Conservative politician.

[1] Churchman went into partnership with his brother, William, in the family tobacco firm which had been founded by their great-grandfather in 1790.

In 1917, he was created a baronet, of Abbey Oaks in the Parish of Sproughton in the County of Suffolk.

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk in 1930[5] and served as High Sheriff of the county in 1931.

[6] In 1932, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Woodbridge, of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk.