Bridget Rose Dugdale (25 March 1941 – 18 March 2024) was an English debutante who rebelled against her wealthy upbringing, becoming a volunteer in the militant Irish republican organisation, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). [1] As an IRA member, she took part in the theft of paintings worth IR£ 8 million, a bomb attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station using a ...
She was born Bridget Rose Dugdale in March 1941, to a father who was an underwriter for the insurance market Lloyd’s of London and a mother who was an heiress herself.
Born into privilege in 1941, Bridget Rose Dugdale looked destined for a life of comfort and convention. Taught by a French governess, educated at elite European finishing schools and ushered into ...
Bridget Rose Dugdale, academic and IRA member, born 25 March 1941; died 18 March 2024 This article was amended on 19 March 2024 to clarify the chronology of women’s admission to the Oxford Union ...
Bridget Rose Dugdale was born on , at Yarty, her family’s 600-acre estate in Devon, in southwest England.
Bridget Rose Dugdale was born in 1941, in Honiton, Devon, to James Frederick Compton Dugdale and his wife Caroline (née Timmis). Caroline had previously been married to John Mosley, brother of Sir Oswald Mosley. Rose’s father was a retired colonel in the British army and a name at Lloyd’s who had accumulated considerable wealth in the 1950s.
ROSE Dugdale, the English socialite who became involved with the IRA and was part of a failed bomb attack on Strabane RUC station 50 years ago this year, passed away at the weekend. Dr Dugdale, as she later became, was born Bridget Rose Dugdale into an upper-class family in Devon to Lieutenant Colonel Eric Dugdale, […]