Michael Pitt-Rivers - Revision history

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	== Modern references ==		== Modern references ==
	Lord Beaulieu’s story is told in the Channel 4 documentary ''A Very British Sex Scandal''		Lord Beaulieu’s story is told in the Channel 4 documentary ''A Very British Sex Scandal''.

	== References ==		== References ==

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	Lord Beaulieu’s story is told in the Channel 4 documentary ''“A Very British Sex ~~Scandal”~~''		Lord Beaulieu’s story is told in the Channel 4 documentary ''A Very British Sex Scandal''

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Ross Burgess at 18:58, 23 August 2012

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	[[category:People convicted of homosexual offences]] [[category: crime]]		[[category:People convicted of homosexual offences]] [[category: crime]]

Ross Burgess at 18:58, 23 August 2012

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	[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]		[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]
	'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1954 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and Wildeblood were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.		'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in [[Oxford]]. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1954 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and Wildeblood were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.

	The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.		The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.

Ross Burgess at 21:33, 19 June 2012

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	[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]		[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]
	'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the ~~1953~~ trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and Wildeblood were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.		'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1954 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and Wildeblood were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.

	The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.		The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.

Ross Burgess at 23:04, 27 May 2012

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	[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]		[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]
	'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1953 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.		'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1953 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and Wildeblood were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.

	The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.		The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.

Ross Burgess at 23:02, 27 May 2012

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	[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]		[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]
	'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A.H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1953 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.		'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A H Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1953 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.

	The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.		The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.

LGBT-HP at 22:14, 20 March 2012

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	[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]		[[File:Montagu-news.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Daily Mirror, March 25 1954 “The Montagu Case”]]
	~~Major~~ '''Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A.H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1953 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.		'''Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers''' (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was the cousin of [[Lord Montagu of Beaulieu]] and great grandson of Lt-Gen A.H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers whose ethnographic collection formed the basis of the Pitt-Rivers collection at the museum in Oxford. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons' or [[buggery]] in the 1953 trial with Beaulieu and [[Peter Wildeblood]]. Pitt-Rivers and were sentenced to 18 months in prison, Beaulieu for 12 months.

	The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.		The prosecution provoked a wave of sympathy from the Press and the public, many of whom felt it amounted to little more than an unedifying witch-hunt. It was the first time since [[Oscar Wilde]] in 1895 that this law had led to a conviction<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-468385/Lord-Montagu-court-case-ended-legal-persecution-homosexuals.html </ref>. The case led eventually to the [[Wolfenden Report]], which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.