13-400: Wolfenden may refer to any of the following: People [ edit ] Wolfenden (surname) Places [ edit ] Wolfenden, location and township near Newchurch-in-Rossendale , Lancashire Mount Wolfenden , Vancouver Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
26-469: A don at Magdalen College, Oxford , in 1929. John Wolfenden was the headmaster of Uppingham School (1934–1944) and Shrewsbury School (1944–1950) and chairman of various government committees which mostly focused on education and problems with youth. In 1950 he became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading and found time to write two books, Family Affair and The Steele Age , both part of
39-609: A foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and a British spy. He died aged 78, on 18 January 1985 in Guildford , Surrey , England. In his essay The Gap—The Bridge , Wolfenden discusses the problems with institutional dichotomy . His memoirs were published by The Bodley Head in 1976, under the title of Turning Points . Wolfenden was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1942, and
52-522: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden , CBE (26 June 1906 – 18 January 1985) was a British educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the Wolfenden Committee whose report , recommending the decriminalisation of homosexuality, was published in 1957. He was headmaster of Uppingham and Shrewsbury public schools . Wolfenden
65-812: The Central Council of Physical Recreation which investigated the role of various statutory and voluntary groups in sport in the United Kingdom. The committee published its report in 1960, and fifty years later it was still an influential work in its field. In 1962, the Privy Council appointed Wolfenden as Chairman of the Council for the Training of Health Workers and the Council for the Training in Social Work , two bodies established by
78-604: The Health Visiting and Social Work (Training) Act 1962 . Wolfenden was director of the British Museum from 1969 to 1973, became President of Chelsea College in 1972, Chairman of the Chelsea Building Society and Metropolitan Association of Building Societies in 1978. Wolfenden married Eileen Spilsbury in 1932, they had two sons and two daughters. His elder son was Jeremy Wolfenden ,
91-631: The Wolfenden Report (1957) Wolfenden (disambiguation) References [ edit ] ^ "Surname Database: Wolfenden Last Name Origin" . The Internet Surname Database . Retrieved 2021-04-24 . ^ "Surname Database: Wolfenden Last Name Origin" . The Internet Surname Database . Retrieved 2021-04-25 . ^ "What is the meaning of Wolfenden, the name Wolfenden means, Wolfenden stands for" . thenamesdictionary.com . Retrieved 2021-04-25 . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
104-571: The surname Wolfenden . 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=Wolfenden_(surname)&oldid=1259182491 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames English toponymic surnames Surnames of English origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
117-1514: The 💕 Wolfenden Pronunciation English: / ˈ w ʌ l f ə n d ə n / Language(s) English Origin Language(s) English Meaning "the valley of Wulfhelm" Other names Variant form(s) Woolfenden Wolfenden is a surname of Old English origin meaning 'the valley of Wulfhelm' and derives from the location or township of Wolfenden near Newchurch-in-Rossendale , Lancashire . Other variants include Woolfenden. Surname [ edit ] Chantel Louise Wolfenden (born 1986), Australian paralympic swimmer Christopher Wolfenden (born 1977), Canadian volleyball player Hugh Herbert Wolfenden (1892–1968), Canadian actuary and statistician Jacquie Sonia Durrell (née Wolfenden) (born 1929), British naturalist James Paine Wolfenden (1889–1949), United States congressman Jeremy Wolfenden (1934–1965), British journalist and spy Matthew Wolfenden (born 1987), British footballer Matthew Wolfenden (born 1980), British actor Richard Vance Wolfenden (born 1935), American biochemist Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854–1926), English physician and oceanographer Rich Wolfenden (born 1992), British broadcaster Guy Anthony Woolfenden (1937–2016), English composer and conductor See also [ edit ] John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (1906–1985), British educator and author of
130-490: The liberalisation of gay rights while sitting as Lord Kilmuir in the House of Lords. Geraldine Bedell noted the irony of this, and commented: "Perhaps he [Maxwell-Fyfe] thought, by handing over to a committee, to shelve the issue. Perhaps he assumed Wolfenden would find against, in which case, he chose a curious chairman, because Wolfenden had a gay son, Jeremy ." In 1957, Wolfenden chaired an independent committee initiated by
143-524: The series of 'Take Home Books'. From 1954 to 1957 he was Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, known in shorthand as the Wolfenden Committee after himself, whose report was published in 1957. Wolfenden had been appointed to head the committee by the then Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe to consider whether the existing laws on these should be changed. Maxwell Fyfe would later come to oppose
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#1732776047409156-471: The title Wolfenden . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolfenden&oldid=1020823335 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wolfenden (surname) From Misplaced Pages,
169-736: Was born on 26 June 1906 in Swindon, Wiltshire , England. He was the son of George Wolfenden and Emily Hannah Gaukroger, both born in Halifax, Yorkshire . George Wolfenden became an official of the West Riding Local Education Authority based in Wakefield , West Riding of Yorkshire , where John attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School . He won a scholarship to Oxford . Having studied in Oxford, Wolfenden became
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