Michael Pitt-Rivers
(1917-1999)
British Army officer
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Major Michael Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (27 May 1917 – December 1999) was a West Country landowner who gained notoriety in Britain in the 1950s when he was put on trial charged with buggery. This trial was instrumental in bringing public attention—and opposition—to the laws against homosexuality as they then stood.
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27 May 1917
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1 December 1999 (aged 82)
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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