• John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, CBE (26 June 1906 – 18 January 1985) was a British educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the...
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  • Wolfenden (1854–1926), English physician and oceanographer Guy Anthony Woolfenden (1937–2016), English composer and conductor John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden...
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  • cast-member John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, author of the report on the law concerning homosexuality and prostitution. Although born in Wiltshire, Wolfenden grew...
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    author Professor Alan M. Taylor, economist, Columbia University John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading, and chair of...
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  • work for homosexual law reform. It called itself the Wolfenden Association after Baron John Wolfenden whose eponymous 1957 report had recommended decriminalisation...
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  • much attention following the publication by the UK Parliament of the Wolfenden Report in 1957, which recommended that homosexuality should be decriminalised...
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    West End musical theatre actress John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, chairman of the Wolfenden committee Matthew Wolfenden, actor in ITV1's Emmerdale Patrick...
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  • suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. Devlin was involved in the debate about homosexuality in British law; in response to the Wolfenden report, he argued...
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  • American-domiciled golf course designer (died 2000) 26 June – John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, educationist (died 1985) 27 June Catherine Cookson, novelist...
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    Horace Davey, Baron Davey (1896-1907) Alfred Comyn Lyall (1907-1911) Herbert Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden The College of...
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  • Vincent's Club and invented the coxless four John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, educationalist who wrote the Wolfenden report Edward Murray Wrong, historian and...
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  • Museum 1974–76, Director 1976–79 John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (Magdalen) V-C Reading Univ 1950–63, Chmn Wolfenden Cttee 1954–57, Chmn Univ Grants Cttee...
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    Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby, KBE (12 February 1900 – 16 July 1986), often known as Bob Boothby, was a British Conservative politician. The...
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    Anderson 1963–75: A. R. D. Wright 1950–63: John "Jock" Magnus Peterson 1944–50: John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden 1932–44: Henry Harrison Hardy (father of...
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    set up a committee led by John Wolfenden to consider the laws on homosexuality. In 1957, the committee published the Wolfenden report, which recommended...
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  • peer, soldier and writer (born 1900) John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, educationist and compiler of the Wolfenden Report (born 1906) 19 January – Joan...
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  • anniversary): John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, Hunter, Hippocrates and Humanity 1979 George Qvist, Some controversial aspects of John Hunter's life and...
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    the issue. Perhaps he assumed Wolfenden would find against, in which case, he chose a curious chairman, because Wolfenden had a gay son, Jeremy." Kilmuir...
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    Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (20 October 1926 – 31 August 2015) was a British aristocrat and Conservative...
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    boundary question". Alaska Boundary Question. Victoria, British Columbia: R. Wolfenden. p. 1387. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27., report to David McEwen...
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  • Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, (Law Lord, 1913). Daughter of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Father of John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury...
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    populist or Fascist dictatorship at that." Hailsham appeared before the Wolfenden Committee to discuss homosexuality. The historian Patrick Higgins said...
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    to the Wolfenden Report's findings and the government's lack of action in light of the report. HLRS lobbied parliament to act upon the Wolfenden Report...
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  • Bonill were tried on 21 September 1835 at the Central Criminal Court, before Baron Gurney, a judge who had the reputation of being independent and acute, but...
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    acts in private between people over the age of 21), ten years after the Wolfenden report. Jurisdictions in many former colonies have retained such legislation...
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  • prosecuted by the police for gross indecency 1954 –The Wolfenden Committee is formed with Sir John Wolfenden as chairman to examine Prostitution and Homosexuality...
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    then opted for outright independence and co-education; Chairman Lord Wolfenden explained the decision in the House of Lords on 12 November 1975: As a...
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    included Rajani Palme Dutt, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, his old headmaster John Wolfenden and Jacob Bronowski, whilst Aneurin Bevan addressed a packed meeting...
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    member) Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh Lord Wolfenden: 121  Charles Wordsworth: 45  List of London's gentlemen's clubs Sanders...
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    1956, Longford launched the first Parliamentary debate in support of the Wolfenden Report, which recommended the decriminalisation of private and consensual...
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