Jeremy Hutchinson

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Jeremy Nicolas Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington QC (March 28, 1915 - November 13, 2017 ) was a British lawyer and politician ( Labor , SDP , most recently Liberal Democrats ).

life and career

Hutchinson was born on March 28, 1915 to Mary (1889-1977) and Jack (St. John) Hutchinson (1884-1942). He had an older sister, Barbara Judith Hutchinson (1911-1989). He attended Stowe School, a private school in Stowe , Buckinghamshire . His studies at Magdalen College of the University of Oxford closed it with a Master of Arts in Philosophy , Political Science and Economics from.

In 1939 he was at the London Bar Association Middle Temple admitted to the bar. From 1939 to 1946 he served as a volunteer with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR), from spring 1940 under the command of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma . During the Second World War , in 1941, again under the command of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Hutchinson served in the Airborne Battle of Crete as a sub-lieutenant on the British destroyer HMS Kelly , where he was responsible for the operation and firing of the Ordnance QF 2 -Pounder naval guns was responsible. During the evacuation of Crete, the HMS Kelly was bombed by German dive bombers on May 23, 1941 and sank; Hutchinson and Mountbatten survived. In later years he was in correspondence with Louis Mountbatten, in which he also expressed himself about common war experiences and his views on the war . During the final year of the war, Hutchinson was stationed in Malta , where he was assigned to the staff of the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet.

In the British general election in 1945 , Hutchinson stood at the request of his party friend, MP Philip Noel-Baker , as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of the Abbey Division of Westminster . He succeeded in reducing the Conservative Party's lead from 12,000 votes to 4,000 votes in this traditional Tory constituency . Hutchinson was strongly supported in his election campaign by his then wife, the well-known theater actress and later Oscar winner Peggy Ashcroft , who personally solicited support for her husband from voters.

In October 1960 he was part of the defense team at Penguin Books , along with Richard Du Cann , under the direction of Gerald Gardiner . In the criminal case Regina v. Penguin Books Limited , Penguin Books, was accused of distributing pornographic material under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 on the occasion of a reissue of DH Lawrence's works , which included the uncensored version of the novel Lady Chatterley . As part of the process, Hutchinson was responsible for the selection and order of the witnesses as well as for the questioning of witnesses and experts. The trial ended on November 2, 1960 with an acquittal. In early November 2010, at the age of 95, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the judgment, he was one of the speakers at the panel discussion Lady Chatterley's Lover: Fifty years on , an event of the London School of Economics at the Sheikh Zayed Theater .

In 1961 he became crown attorney . In 1963 he defended a criminal trial at the Old Bailey physicist Dr. Giuseppe Martelli , who was charged with betraying British nuclear weapons plans to the Soviet Union . Hutchinson based his defense on the fact that Martelli never had access to classified documents and so could not have broken any law. In 1963 he became an assessor ( Bencher ); from 1962 to 1972 he was a recorder at Bath , Somerset and from 1972 to 1976 a recorder at the Crown Court .

In 1971 he defended in a process the book The Mouth and Oral Sex of Paul Ableman successfully against charges of obscenity. In his plea, he particularly pointed out the double standards of society.

In March 1980, Hutchinson represented the Crown in Exeter Crown Court in what was then a high-profile case of betting fraud at the Newton Abbot horse race in July 1978.

In June 1981 he represented the British director Michael Bogdanov on the Horseferry Road Magistrates Court on charges of profanity. Bogdanov had staged a gay rape scene in a performance of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain at the Royal National Theater and had been charged. In his defense speech, Hutchinson pointed out in particular that the Sexual Offenses Act of 1967 did not intend to restrict artistic freedom .

In 1988 he taught at the Royal Academy of Arts as a professor of law .

Other offices

Hutchinson was a member of the Committee on Immigration Appeals from 1966 to 1968 . From 1974 to 1976 he was a member of the Committee on Identification Procedures . At the Arts Council of Great Britain , he was Vice-Chair from 1977 to 1979 . For the Tate Gallery he was first from 1977 to 1984 as a member of the Trusteeship Council ( Trustee ) and later as chairman ( Chairman active) 1980-1984.

Membership in the House of Lords

On May 16, 1978, he was raised to a Life Peer with the title Baron Hutchinson of Lullington , of Lullington in the County of East Sussex. He gave his inaugural address in the House of Lords on November 22, 1978. He first sat there as a Labor peer until 1981, when he became a member of the SDP and later the Liberal Democrats .

Hutchinson spoke up in the late 1970s on the Probation System , Monument Protection, and Protection Of Official Information Bill . In the 1980s he spoke on the subjects of art, the Arts Council , prison sentences, as well as several times on the Victoria and Albert Museum . He spoke in the 1990s on the death threats against Salman Rushdie , HIV / AIDS among inmates, the cost of the War Crimes Act, and overcrowding in prisons. In the early 2000s, he reported several times on draft laws on criminal justice and most recently on the draft law regulating fox hunting , the Hunting Act 2004 , where he spoke out against a ban on hunting with cattle dogs.

He last spoke up on March 12, 2001. He last took part in a vote on December 7, 2004.

In the period from the 2001/2002 session onwards, he was present at first very irregularly. His days of attendance were always in the single-digit range. In the session periods from 2006/2007 he was completely absent. He had been on permanent leave since July 2, 2010 due to a leave of absence granted by the House of Lords .

On October 3, 2011, Hutchinson took advantage of a newly created Voluntary Retirement Scheme in Parliament's Rules of Procedure ; thereafter, members of the House of Lords will for the first time be allowed to permanently waive their mandate.

Private

Hutchinson and Ashcroft met through their families when Hutchinson was 16 years old. In the spring of 1932 they met again at parties in Oxford, when Hutchinson was studying at the University of Oxford and Ashcroft was playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) . In spring 1940, when Hutchinson completed his basic training for the RNVR at King Alfred's Center in Brighton , he met Ashcroft again, who was there at the Theater Royal in the play Cousin Muriel by Clemence Dane (1888-1965). A love relationship developed.

Hutchinson and Ashcroft were married on September 14, 1940 at the registry office in Marylebone, London . He has a son and a daughter from his marriage to his first wife. His son later became a theater producer. The marriage was divorced on December 22, 1965. Adultery was given as the reason for divorce .

From May 1966 he was married to June Osborn , with whom he had had an extramarital love affair for several years. She died in 2006.

He became friends with the British writer and lawyer John Mortimer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremy Nicholas Hutchinson Baron Hutchinson of Lullington QC (I15687) Genealogical Research Page
  2. ↑ Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters By John Gielgud Letter from John Gielgud to his mother dated June 8, 1941 (p. 61)
  3. ^ William Pattinson: Mountbatten & the men of the "Kelly" p. 208
  4. ^ A b c Michael Billington: Peggy Ashcroft . John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. London 1988, p. 116. ISBN 0-7195-4436-X
  5. ^ Dennis Healey: The time of my life, p. 110
  6. ^ Austin Vernon Mitchell: Election '45: reflections on the revolution in Britain p. 58
  7. ↑ Lady Chatterley's Lover Trial (act. 1960) ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oxforddnb.com
  8. ↑ Lady Chatterley's Lover: Fifty years on LSE events
  9. ^ Nigel West: A Matter of Trust MI5 1945-72 , p. 117
  10. ^ Inder S. Rana: Law of obscenity in India, USA & UK , p. 75
  11. ^ Paul Ableman obituary in: The Independent, October 31, 2006
  12. ↑ David Ashorth: Ringers & Rascals: The True Story of Racing's Greatest Con Artists
  13. ↑ David Ashforth: Great Racing Scams: In The Money part 2 - Guilty of ringer fraud, but fate of two horses still a mystery  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: The Racing Post of January 10, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.highbeam.com  
  14. ^ David Thomas, David Carlton, Anne Etienne: Theater censorship: from Walpole to Wilson , p. 232
  15. ↑ Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  16. ↑ Members of the House of Lords granted leave of absence FAQs Homepage of the House of Lords
  17. ↑ APPENDIX 1: PROPOSED TEXT FOR THE COMPANION TO THE STANDING ORDERS Extract from the Rules of Procedure on the House of Lords website , accessed on October 7, 2011
  18. ↑ Two peers 'retire' from Lords  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Littlehampton Gazette article , October 4, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.littlehamptongazette.co.uk  
  19. ^ A b c Michael Billington: Peggy Ashcroft . John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. London 1988, pp. 103/104. ISBN 0-7195-4436-X
  20. ↑ Victoria Houseman: Made in heaven: the marriages and children of Hollywood stars , p. 11. Other sources also cite 1966.
  21. ↑ Lady Hutchinson's obituary in: The Daily Telegraph, October 4, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Hutchinson, Jeremy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutchinson, Jeremy Nicolas, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Liberal Democrats)
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1915
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 2017