Person Open DS/UK/13135 Boothby; Lord; Robert (12 February 1900-16 July 1986); Baron Boothby, KBE; British Conservative politician Boothby Robert Lord 12 February 1900-16 July 1986 British Conservative politician Male (cisgender) Bob Boothby | Robert John Graham Boothby Edinburgh, Scotland (born)

British Politics | UK Conservative White No known disability No known religious affiliation Son of Sir Robert Tuite Boothby and a cousin of Rosalind Grant (mother of the broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy) Bisexual / Pansexual Robert Boothby was a British Conservative politician. Boothby was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill from 1926 to 1929. He helped launch the Popular Front in 1936. He held junior ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food in 1940–41. He was later forced to resign his post and go to the back benches for not declaring an interest when asking a parliamentary question. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and served as a junior staff officer with Bomber Command, and later as a liaison officer with the Free French Forces, retiring with the rank of Flight Lieutenant. In 1950 he received the Legion of Honour for his latter services. During the 1950s, Boothby was a prominent advocate of decriminalizing homosexual acts between men. In his memoirs, he wrote that he was determined to "do something practical to remove the fear and misery in which many of our most gifted citizens were then compelled to live". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boothby,_Baron_Boothby (2024) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes In 1963, Boothby began an affair with East End cat burglar Leslie Holt, a younger man he met at a gambling club. Holt introduced him to the gangster Ronnie Kray, one of the Kray twins, who allegedly supplied Boothby with young men, and arranged orgies in Cedra Court, receiving favours from Boothby in return. RAHdroberts 2/25/2014 RAHAKIRKBRIDE 2/14/2024 603f84b2-8a4b-40ac-9fa3-87f3ff47edd3