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    Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell (22 May 1905 – 12 August 1976) was a British journalist, politician, High Anglican churchman and possible Soviet...
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  • to their "folk hero" image being eclipsed by a "folk villain" image. Tom Driberg, a Labour MP and gossip columnist for the Daily Express, was well acquainted...
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    on the way to becoming one himself. Evelyn Waugh introduced Tom Driberg to the club. Driberg remembered "dancing with John F., while Evelyn and another...
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    ISBN 978-0-00-824556-6. Driberg, Tom (1956). Guy Burgess: A Portrait with Background. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. OCLC 1903821. Driberg, Tom (1977). Ruling...
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  • 18th-century diarist William Hickey. The column was first established by Tom Driberg in May 1933. An existing gossip column was relaunched following the intervention...
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    urbanised in the 18th century. Its name was coined in the late 1930s by Tom Driberg. It is characterised by its mixed-use of residential, business, retail...
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    60302; col A. p. 14. The extreme homosexual promiscuity of the late Tom Driberg, as revealed in his posthumous autobiography, must have surprised all...
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  • Acland David Astor Thomas Balogh Vernon Bartlett Violet Bonham Carter Tom Driberg Michael Foot Raymond Gauntlett, Secretary Victor Gollancz Eva Hubback...
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    Gordon Campbell, Bernadette McAliskey, Enoch Powell, Richard Crossman, Tom Driberg and Patrick Gordon Walker. It was the first of two United Kingdom general...
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  • Jimmy Page. Her godparents were composer Constant Lambert, Labour peer Tom Driberg and Daria Hambourg (daughter of the pianist Mark Hambourg). Sylvestre...
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  • Teiresias algorithm Tirésias Simon Sam (1835–1916), President of Haiti Tom Driberg (1905–1976), pseudonymously Tiresias, British journalist, politician...
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  • Stewart began working as private secretary to Tom Driberg, the Labour Member of Parliament. Driberg taught Stewart about art, classical music and literature...
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  • which Waugh felt bound to object publicly. His friend, the journalist Tom Driberg agreed to place a notice in his "William Hickey" column in the Daily...
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  • Sullivan Kingsley Amis Peggy Ashcroft James Cameron Stokely Carmichael Tom Driberg Paul Scofield Patrick Wymark Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Jeremy...
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    was enthusiastically covered by journalists such as Charles Graves and Tom Driberg. They inspired a number of writers, including Nancy Mitford (Highland...
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  • 1899 Percontation point in Unicode Hervé Bazin 1966 CPNB proposal 2007 Tom Driberg recommended that ironic statements should be printed in leftward-slanting...
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    Bollinger Club's destructive rampage through his college and is sent down. Tom Driberg claimed that the description of the Bollinger Club was a "mild account...
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  • gossip, sex". The Washington Times. Wheen, Francis (25 October 1990). Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780701131432 – via...
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  • Theatre (NT) Skylight Tom Sergeant Cottesloe Theatre (NT) 1996 Wyndham's Theatre Royale Theatre, New York City 1997 Tom and Clem Tom Driberg Aldwych Theatre...
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  • when, in 1941 Anthony Blunt informed Harry Pollitt that Tom Driberg was an informer, and Driberg was expelled from the Communist Party, Knight developed...
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    Labour's National Executive Committee (the "NEC"): Bevan, Barbara Castle, Tom Driberg, Ian Mikardo and Harold Wilson took the top five places with Crossman...
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    United Kingdom (1945–present) Tony Benn Barbara Castle Richard Crossman Tom Driberg Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge Ian Mikardo George Thomas, 1st...
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  • science correspondent Charlie Chaplin Michael Redgrave Bessie Braddock Tom Driberg Michael Foot John Platts-Mills Stephen Swingler Joseph Macleod, writer...
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    became close to Labour Party luminaries Aneurin Bevan, Jennie Lee and Tom Driberg". Through another socialist friend, Martin Blake, Winton became part...
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    Election Member Party 1945 Somerville Hastings Labour 1959 Tom Driberg Labour Feb 1974 Jo Richardson Labour 1994 by-election Margaret Hodge Labour 2024...
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  • Wilderness, a designated wilderness area in the state of Oklahoma, US Tom Driberg, Baron Bradwell (1905-1976), British journalist and politician Chris...
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    up-to-date information about occult circles in this country. My friend, Tom Driberg, who then lived in a mews flat just behind us in Queen's Gate, proved...
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    denied the story and threatened to sue the Mirror. His close friend Tom Driberg—a senior Labour MP, and also homosexual—also associated with the Krays;...
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  • recalled, "I was in a nursing home when Decline and Fall came out, and Tom Driberg visited me and brought a copy. He began to read out some favourite passages...
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    retook the seat in 1924, holding it until the 1940s, but it was won by Tom Driberg in a wartime by-election; yet his hold on the seat was rarely secure...
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