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Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery. This trial was instrumental in bringing public attention – and opposition – to the stringent laws against homosexual acts as they then stood.
Michael Pitt-Rivers. 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.
Jun 8, 2017 · All three men were found guilty of “consensual homosexual offences”. Lord Montagu was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, Pitt-Rivers and Wildeblood were sentenced to 18 months. The Montagu trial was a catalyst which increased the public desire for law reform.
Peter Wildeblood was a journalist who admitted to being gay in court in 1953, along with Lord Montagu and others. He became a vocal campaigner for decriminalisation and wrote a book about his ordeal.
May 27, 2024 · Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers was a British landowner who in the 1950’s was put on trial for buggery at a time when being homosexual was still illegal. The case drew attention to changing community attitudes to homosexuality and led to the publication of the Wolfenden Report that recommended decriminalisation.
Jun 3, 2018 · Michael Pitt-Rivers, born in 1917, was a West Country landowner. Serving in World War Two and earning the rank of Captain, he was later charged and found guilty of "conspiracy to incite...
Jul 27, 2017 · Wildeblood was one of the three men who in 1954 were convicted of buggery in the notorious Montagu case (the others being Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and his cousin Michael Pitt-Rivers) – a trial that led, thanks to unease about the verdict, to the inquiry that resulted in the Wolfenden report, which in 1957 recommended the decriminalisation of ...
