Ronald Collet Norman

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Ronald Collet Norman JP (1873–5 December 1963) was a banker, administrator and politician. He was chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1935 to 1939 and of the London County Council from 1918 to 1919. He was the son of Frederick Henry Norman.

In 1907 he was elected to the London County Council as a Municipal Reformer. From 1918-1919 he served as chairman and was an Alderman of the council from 1922-1934. He served as the vice-chairman of the National Trust during the 1930s, but he declined the chairmanship, because he was not "a great landowner". He placed the Trust's finance committee on a more professional footing; it subsequently fell to his son Mark Norman to chair that committee through the difficult economic circumstances of the 1970s. From 1933 to 1935 he served as vice-chairman of the BBC, and was chairman from 1935 to April, 1939 ^[1].

1 Descendants
2 Family connections
3 Sources
4 Notes

[edit] Descendants

Norman married Lady Florence Sibell Bridgeman (1877-1959), a daughter of the 4th Earl of Bradford. They had three sons: Brigadier Hugh Norman (1905-1979); Mark Norman (1910-1994), a successful merchant banker; Richard Norman (1917-1994); and a daughter Sibyl Margaret Norman (ca. 1908-).

Ronald Norman's grandson David Norman has led a successful career in the city and in the arts. His daughter Isabella Julia Norman is married to a descendant of Queen Victoria.

[edit] Family connections

The elder son Brigadier Hugh Norman was father of Patricia Norman, former wife of the 3rd Baron Kindersley. The middle son Mark Norman was grandfather of . The youngest son Richard Norman married an Anglo-Spanish aristocrat, descended from the Bourbon duques de Marchena (Dukes of Marchena) themselves descended morganatically from Spanish kings. Sibyl Margaret Norman's daughter Priscilla Cubitt is the third and present wife of the 11th Earl of Harrington, and they are parents of Lady Isabella Stanhope, wife of the 7th Earl Cawdor.

Through the Bridgemans, the Normans descended from Ronald Collet Norman and Lady Florence are thus related to several prominent English and Scottish aristocrats including HRH The Duke of Gloucester (whose maternal grandmother was a sister of Lady Florence Norman), the 7th Marquess of Salisbury (whose maternal great-grandmother was another sister), the 9th Duke of Buccleuch (whose paternal grandmother, shared with the Duke of Gloucester, was a sister of Lady Florence), and so forth.

His brother Montagu Norman, became a long serving Governor of the Bank of England and was elevated to the peerage as the 1st Baron Norman (but that title is now extinct, Lord Norman having had no issue). Both their grandfathers were directors.

[edit] Sources

Ronald Collet Norman is shown for his marriage and some of his descendants.
Lady Florence Sibell Bridgeman was the wife of Ronald Collet Norman, and the mother of all his children.
Richard Norman was the youngest son.
Patricia Norman's marriage shows one of Ronald Collet Norman's granddaughters, formerly wife of the 3rd Baron Kindersley.
Lady Isabella Rachel Stanhope is Ronald Collet Norman's great-granddaughter and now The Countess Cawdor.