[3] He resumed his studies in Cambridge and after winning a classical exhibition, Bridgeman read natural sciences and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1920.
[1] During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and gained the rank of brigadier.
[3] He was an honorary consultant ophthalmologist at the India and Burma Office and was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1933.
[4] Bridgeman held membership of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and of the British Medical Association.
[8] The couple had three children, one son and two daughters:[8][9] Mary died in 1961 and Bridgeman survived her until 1974.