33-524: Boothby may refer to: People [ edit ] Boothby (surname) Boothby Graffoe (comedian) (born James Martyn Rogers in 1962), English comedian, singer, songwriter and playwright Places [ edit ] Division of Boothby , an Australian federal electoral district in Adelaide Cape Boothby , Antarctica Other uses [ edit ] Boothby baronets , two titles in
66-422: A few lectures and did some general reading, but, as he cheerfully observed, "there were far too many other things to do". He achieved a pass without distinction in 1921. After Oxford, he became a partner in a firm of stockbrokers . Boothby was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Orkney and Shetland in 1923 and was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen and Kincardine East in 1924. He held
99-668: A food. He was Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic Affairs, 1952–1956; Honorary President of the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture, 1934; Rector of the University of St Andrews , 1958–1961; Chairman of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , 1961–1963; and President, Anglo- Israel Association, 1962–1975. He was awarded an Honorary LLD by St Andrews in 1959, and was made an Honorary Burgess of
132-788: A younger man he met at a gambling club. Holt introduced him to the gangster Ronnie Kray, one of the Kray twins , who allegedly supplied Boothby with young men, and arranged orgies in Cedra Court (the apartment block in Hackney where the Kray twins lived), receiving favours from Boothby in return. When Boothby's underworld associations came to the attention of the Sunday Express , the Conservative -supporting newspaper opted not to publish
165-415: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby , KBE (12 February 1900 – 16 July 1986), often known as Bob Boothby , was a British Conservative politician. The only son of Sir Robert Tuite Boothby , KBE, of Edinburgh and a cousin of Rosalind Grant, mother of the broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy , Boothby
198-465: Is so clearly in the public interest to eradicate. Boothby premised his argument for law reform on the idea that it was the role of the state "not to punish psychological disorders – rather to try and cure them". He argued in the House of Commons that the law as it was did not "achieve the objective of all of us, which is to limit the incidence of homosexuality and to mitigate its evil effects". After
231-773: The Agriculture Act 1947 and ruin British farmers. This economic liberalism of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rab Butler , led to Boothby complaining that "The Tory Party have in fact become the Liberal Party " and cited what the leader of the Liberal Party ( Clement Davies ) had said to him about Butler: "Sir Robert Peel has come again." In response, Davies claimed that Boothby "has been sitting on
264-555: The Home Secretary , calling for the establishment of a departmental inquiry into homosexuality. He argued that: By attaching so fearful a stigma to homosexuality as such, you put a very large number of otherwise law-abiding and useful citizens on the other side of the fence which divides the good citizen from the bad. By making them feel that, instead of unfortunates they are social pariahs, you drive them into squalor – perhaps into crime; and produce that very "underground" which it
297-577: The Legion of Honour for his latter services. In 1954 (echoing words he had said in 1934), Boothby complained that for 30 years he had been advocating "a constructive policy on broad lines" but that this had not been taken up: "The doctrine of infallibility has always applied to the Treasury and the Bank of England ". Boothby opposed free trade in food stuffs, and claimed that such a policy would invalidate
330-454: The surname Boothby . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boothby_(surname)&oldid=1080737230 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
363-597: The Baronetage of England, one extant Boothby monument in St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne, England Boothby (Star Trek) , groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy See also [ edit ] Boothby Graffoe , Lincolnshire, England Boothby Pagnell , Lincolnshire, England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boothby . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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#1732772313733396-677: The Burghs of Peterhead , Fraserburgh , Turriff and Rosehearty . He was appointed an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1950, and a KBE in 1953. Boothby was raised to the peerage as a life peer with the title Baron Boothby , of Buchan and Rattray Head in the County of Aberdeen , on 22 August 1958. There is a blue plaque on his house in Eaton Square , London. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in October 1963, when he
429-640: The Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution recommended decriminalization in the Wolfenden Report of 1957, Boothby claimed that, through his correspondence with Fyfe, he had been "primarily responsible" for the committee's establishment. Boothby had a colourful, if reasonably discreet, private life, mainly because the press refused to print what they knew of him, or were prevented from doing so. Woodrow Wyatt , whose reliability has been questioned, claimed after
462-463: The Dr. Nikola novels Ian Boothby , comic book writer, comedian Josiah Boothby (1837–1916), Australian public administrator Neil Boothby , child psychologist Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby (1900–1986), British politician Robert Tuite Boothby (1871–1941), British banker, father of Robert Boothby Scott Boothby (born 1973), American hammer thrower Thomas Boothby of Tooley , founder of
495-549: The Krays in the Lords , until their increasing violence made association impossible. It has been claimed that journalists who investigated Boothby were subjected to legal threats and break-ins, and that much of that suppression was directed by Arnold Goodman . Documents released in 2015 show that MI5 used the Kray twins to gather intelligence on homosexual politicians and establishment figures. The MI5 files focus on Lord Boothby, who
528-714: The Ministry of Food in 1940–41. He was later forced to resign his post and go to the back benches for not declaring an interest when asking a parliamentary question. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and served as a junior staff officer with Bomber Command , and later as a liaison officer with the Free French Forces , retiring with the rank of Flight Lieutenant . In 1950 he received
561-902: The Quorn Hunt in Leicestershire, England Thomas Wilde Boothby (1839–1885), aka T. Wilde Boothby, a politician in South Australia Valerie Boothby (1906–1982), German actress William Boothby (1829–1903), the Returning Officer for the first Australian federal election, after whom the Division of Boothby was named William "Cocktail" Boothby (1862–1930), bartender, mixologist, author of The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them William M. Boothby (1918–2021), American mathematician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
594-631: The damaging story. The matter was eventually reported in 1964 in the Labour-supporting Sunday Mirror tabloid, and the parties were subsequently named by the German magazine Stern . Boothby 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; hence, neither of the major political parties had an interest in publicity, and
627-539: The death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother that she had confided to him in an interview in 1991 that "The press knew all about it", referring to Boothby's affairs, and that she had described Boothby as "a bounder but not a cad". From 1930, Boothby had a long affair with Lady Dorothy Macmillan , wife of the Conservative politician Harold Macmillan (prime minister from 1957 to 1963). He was rumoured to be
660-463: The father of the youngest Macmillan daughter, Sarah, although the 2010 biography of Harold Macmillan by D. R. Thorpe discounts Boothby's paternity. This connection to Macmillan, via his wife, has been seen as one of the reasons why the police did not investigate the death of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire , who died in the presence of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams . The duke
693-805: The 💕 Boothby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Basil Boothby (1910–1990), British diplomat Benjamin Boothby (1803–1868), judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet (1744–1824), British poet and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet (1856–1913), British diplomat David Boothby (born 1944), Canadian Police Chief Dora Boothby (1881–1970), English tennis player Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–1670), English playwright Frederic E. Boothby (1845–1923), American railroad manager and politician Guy Boothby (1867–1905), Australian-born author of
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759-458: The marriage had been a mistake (it went on to be a source of long-lasting guilt feelings for him) and it was dissolved in 1937. In 1967, Boothby married Wanda Sanna, a Sardinian woman 33 years his junior. His second cousin, writer and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy , asserted that Boothby fathered at least three children by the wives of other men ("two by one woman, one by another"). Partly because of his support for homosexual law reform, Boothby
792-561: The newspaper's owner Cecil King came under pressure from the Labour leadership to drop the matter. The Mirror backed down, sacked its editor, apologised and paid Boothby £40,000 in an out-of-court settlement (equivalent to £1,023,866 in 2023). Other newspapers became less willing to cover the Krays' criminal activities, which continued for three more years. The police investigation received no support from Scotland Yard , while Boothby embarrassed his fellow peers by campaigning on behalf of
825-412: The role of a speculated homosexual relationship in the drowning of his friend Michael Llewelyn Davies (one of the models for Peter Pan ) and fellow Oxonian Rupert Buxton . In a Channel 4 documentary broadcast in 1997, it was claimed that he did not begin to have physical relationships with women until the age of 25. In 1963, Boothby began an affair with East End cat burglar Leslie Holt (d. 1979),
858-677: The seat until its abolition in 1950, when he was elected for its successor constituency of East Aberdeenshire . Re-elected a final time in 1955, he gave up the seat in 1958 when he was raised to the peerage, triggering a by-election . Boothby was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill from 1926 to 1929. He helped launch the Popular Front in December 1936. He held junior ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to
891-455: The wrong side of the House for many years. Undoubtedly he said tonight that he is the planner of planners. I do not believe in that kind of planning. The hon. Member seems to know better than the ordinary person what is good for the ordinary person, what he ought to buy, where he ought to buy it, where he ought to manufacture and everything else of that kind. There is the true Socialist". Boothby
924-409: Was Lady Dorothy's brother, and it is thought the police were wary of drawing press attention to her while she was being unfaithful. Boothby was married twice. His first wife (married 1935) was Diana Cavendish, daughter of Lord Richard Cavendish , and Lady Dorothy's first cousin; Boothby married her after concluding his relationship with the married Lady Dorothy to be "on the wane". He swiftly realised
957-754: Was a British delegate to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1949 until 1957 and advocated the United Kingdom 's entry into the European Economic Community (a predecessor of the European Union ). He was a prominent commentator on public affairs on radio and television, often taking part in the long-running BBC radio programme Any Questions . He also advocated the virtues of herring as
990-587: Was educated at St Aubyns School , Eton College , and Magdalen College, Oxford . Before going up to Oxford, near the end of the First World War , he trained as an officer and was commissioned into the Brigade of Guards , but was too young to see active service. Boothby read History at the University of Oxford ; the shortened war course was not classed, being marked either 'Pass' or 'Fail'. He attended
1023-499: Was said to share Ronnie Kray's fondness for young men. Boothby was a frequent visitor to Weimar Germany, and in 1932, he was invited to meet Hitler . In his autobiography, he recalls that Hitler "sprang to his feet, lifted his right arm, and shouted 'Hitler!'; ... I responded by clicking my heels together, raising my right arm, and shouting back: 'Boothby!'" Unlike some who were impressed by Hitler, Boothby came away thinking he had seen "the unmistakable glint of madness in his eyes," and
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1056-488: Was subject to public rumours about his sexuality, although he insisted publicly in 1954 that he was "not a homosexual". He did, however, comment that "sub-conscious bi-sexuality is a component part of all of us [and] the majority of males pass through a homosexual period". While an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford , Boothby earned the nickname ' the Palladium ', because "he was twice nightly". He later spoke about
1089-412: Was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at BBC Television Centre . During the 1950s, Boothby was a prominent advocate of decriminalizing homosexual acts between men. In his memoirs, he wrote that he was determined to "do something practical to remove the fear and misery in which many of our most gifted citizens were then compelled to live". In December 1953, he sent a memorandum to David Maxwell Fyfe , then
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