Talk:A. P. Herbert

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"While in Parliament, he advocated the abolition of the entertainments tax, and for reform of the laws of divorce and obscenity."

More details on this? What were the reforms? -[drd]

His main divorce reform was the abolition of the King's Proctor, whose job was to ensure that there really was an innocent party. Couples who both misbehaved could not get divorced, which he thought absurd. --Henrygb 22:36, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is this the same Sir Alan Herbert...

Who was in The Sky at Night in August 1966 http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LGF7010J

Is the statement on the above page correct, that the episode contained astrology (!?), I was thinking it may be a mistake... Would the great Sir Patrick Moore allow astrology on his rather scientific astronomy show? So I guess the question is- was Sir Alan a fan of astrology? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bitplane (talk • contribs) 07:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC).

He's almost certainly the same as any other Sir Alan Herbert floating around in the post-war years, and he did have as I recall an interest in sundials. (He also wanted to rename the constellations, and get everyone using sextants again. Wonderfully mad). I have no idea what "the use of sundials in modern astrology" means, but I suspect it's about the only thing they could find to talk about - after all, sundials are of no actual use for anything these days... Shimgray | talk | 10:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)