Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom, cause of death disputed, Order of the British Empire, Academic of the University of Manchester, University of Manchester
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
Percy Jocelyn

Percy Jocelyn

male, deceased (1843)
Westminster, Bishop of Ferns, Clogher, the Haymarket, LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom, limericks…Robert Jocelyn, 1st Earl of Roden, Earl of Roden, Bishop of Clogher, LGBT issues and religion
Percy Jocelyn (November 29, 1764 - September 3, 1843) was Anglican Bishop of Clogher from 1820 to 1822. The third son of Robert, first Earl of...
Jackie Forster

Jackie Forster

female, deceased (1998)
LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom, Television presenter, Minorities Research Group, Gay Liberation Front, Campaign for Homosexual Equality, LGBT rights activist…member of the board of the Lesbian Archive, the independent, director of the London Women
Jackie Forster was born 6 November 1926 and died in London on 10 October 1998. She married her novelist husband, Peter Forster in 1958 while she...
Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter

male, deceased (1929)
socialism, homosexuality, homosexual, Anglican priest, LGBT rights activist, poet…Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom
Edward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, anthologist, and an early homosexual activist.

Charles Hitchen

male, deceased (1727)
thief-taker, Lord Mayor of London, criminal, prostitute, Crime in London, British…LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom, city of london
Charles Hitchen was a "thief-taker" (unofficial policeman) and infamous criminal in 18th century London who was also infamously tried for...
Margaret Clap

Margaret Clap

female, deceased (1726)
British, holborn, criminal, sexually transmitted disease, Crime in London, brothel…LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom
Margaret Clap (better known as Mother Clap, died circa 1726) was a woman who ran a brothel for homosexual men in London in the early part of the...

Esmé Stewart 1st Duke of Lennox

male, deceased (1583)
Pederasty in the Renaissance, LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom, Earl of Lennox, LGBT history, Duke in the Peerage of Scotland, Duke of Lennox…James VI of Scotland, Privy Council of Scotland, John Stewart, 5th Lord of Aubigny, church of scotland
Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, 1st Earl of Lennox was the son of John Stewart, 5th Lord of Aubigny. Sir James Melville described him as "of n...
Anne Lister

Anne Lister

female, deceased (1840)
battles of Lexington and Concord, 10th Regiment of Foot, halifax, From Yorkshire, Halifax, West Yorkshire, fred…LGBThistoryoftheUnitedKingdom, Ladies of Llangollen
Anne Lister, called Fred by her lover and "Gentleman Jack" by Halifax residents, was a well-off Yorkshire landowner and self-conscious lesbian. She...