Tom Driberg
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Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell (May 22, 1905—August 12, 1976) was a British journalist and politician who was an influential member on the left of the UK Labour party from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Driberg worked on the Daily Express from 1928 and created the William Hickey diary and gossip column.
He was first elected as a Member of parliament for Maldon in a byelection in June 1942 as an independent candidate, basing his election campaign on the 1941 Committee's Nine-Point Plan. He took the Labour whip in January 1945 and continued to sit for the seat until his retirement in 1955. He was elected for the Barking constituency from 1959 to 1974.
He was created a Life Peer, as Baron Bradwell, shortly before his death. His autobiography, Ruling Passions, was published posthumously and disclosed the conflict between the three passions that drove his life: his homosexuality, his left-wing political beliefs, and his allegiance to the High Church tendency of the Church of England. His will insisted that at his memorial service, the reader excoriate him for his sins rather than praise him for his virtues.
Reference
- Francis Wheen (1990) The Soul of Indiscretion: Tom Driberg, Poet, Philanderer, Legislator and Outlaw - His Life and Indiscretions
External links
- Some details (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRdribergT.htm)
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