Theobald Mathew (lawyer)

Sir Theobald Mathew KCB MC QC (1898-1964) was Director of Public Prosecutions from 1944 to 1964, making him the longest-serving DPP. In the late 1940s to the early 1950s, he directed a sustained campaign against homosexulaity. Police used agents provocateurs to lure men into criminal offenses.[1] In 1960 he was responsible for authorising the prosecution of Penguin Books for obscenity after they published Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kynaston, David (2007). Austerity Britain, 1945-1951. Bloomsbury. p. 376. ISBN 9780747579854.
  2. ↑ The Guardian, 13 September 2000. Extract from "Bound and Gagged," by Alan Travis. Published by Profile, 2000.
Preceded by
Edward Atkinson		 Director of Public Prosecutions
1944–1964 		Succeeded by
Norman Skelhorn