Lord Montagu of Beaulieu

Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (born 20 October 1926) is the founder of the Beaulieu National Motor Museum in Hampshire and he identifies publicly as being bisexual. He is a British Conservative Politician who sits in the House of Lords. He attended St. Peter's Court School and Ridley College in Canada, Eton College and New College, Oxford. He served in the Grenadier Guards, including service in Palestine before the end of the British Mandate.

He kept his homosexual affairs discreet and out of the public eye, but in the mid-1950s, Lord Montagu became "one of the most notorious public figures of his generation" after his conviction and imprisonment for "conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offences with male persons" a charge which was also used in the Oscar Wilde trials in 1895, and remained on the books until 1967. On two occasions Lord Montagu was charged and committed for trial at Winchester Assizes, firstly in 1953 for allegedly taking sexual advantage of a 14-year-old Boy Scout at his beach hut on the Solent, a charge he has always denied .

He was imprisoned for 12 months in 1954.

Modern references

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

External links

http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/