Lord Montagu dead: Fast cars and gay rights – an eclectic life in the public eye

Sirop14 Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:27 pm

Lord Montagu dead: Fast cars and gay rights – an eclectic life in the public eye

The aristocrat whose trial for consensual homosexual acts helped usher in the end of legal discrimination against gay people has died aged 88.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3217558/Dandy-peer-sex-trial-changed-Britain-Lord-Montagu-s-died-88-pinnacle-society-jailed-homosexuality.html

Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu

Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (20 October 1926 – 31 August 2015) was an English Conservative politician well known in Britain for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre in British gay history following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for homosexual sex, a charge he denied.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11834811/Lord-Montagu-National-Motor-Museum-at-Beaulieu-founder-dies-aged-88.html

Beaulieu motoring collector Lord Montagu dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-34106225

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu - obituary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11834758/Lord-Montagu-of-Beaulieu-obituary.html

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu obituary | UK news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/31/lord-montagu-of-beaulieu

Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Douglas-Scott-Montagu,_3rd_Baron_Montagu_of_Beaulieu

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