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Gerald Sparrow
Full name John Walter Gerald Sparrow Also known as Judge Gerald Sparrow
Born 1903 Chapel-en-le-Frith Died 1988
Evidence (FreeBMD) exists that he married Barbara E Thompson in 1929 in Chapel-en-le-Frith
Educated Sherborne [1] and Cambridge (Trinity Hall).
President of the Cambirdge University Union 1925 He was called to the bar in 1926 and was a barrister in Manchester (England). In 1930 he became a Judge of the International Court in Bangkok [2]. He served as a judge until he was imprisoned by Japanese in December 1941[3] follwoing their occupation of Thailand.
He was a prolific author writing biographies, notably the Winston Churchill Biography "Churchill, Man of the Century, 1874-1965", autobiographies, commentaries on legal affairs and notable criminal cases, e.g. "Stat and crime fiction.
In 1970 he was a candidate in the UK Parliamentary general election standing in the Huyton constituency for the Democratic Party.
He was controversially involved in the Club of Ten which organised propaganda for the apartheid South African regime. However, he subsequently became critical of the regime follwoing a visit to South Africa and the treatment of his Thai wife he witnessed there[4].
Married Chaluey Wonglamtong June 1954 Greenwich
Bibliography
Autobiographies/Semi-autobiographies
Biographies
Legal Commentary
Criminal Commentary
Historical
Land of the Moonflower 1955
The sphinx awakes 1956
Murder parade 1957
Return ticket 1958
How to Become an M.P. 1959
The Star Sapphires 1958
The great swindlers 1959
Lawyer at large 1960
Opium Venture, etc (Pan Books. no. G333.) 1960
How to Become a Millionaire 1960 by Gerald Sparrow and Ionicus
Hussein of Jordan 1960
Not Wisely But Too Well 1961
Modern Jordan 1961
No other elephant 1961
Gordon: Mandarin and pasha 1962
The Great Imposters 1962
Stephen Ward Speaks / The Profumo Affair: The Two-in-One Book 1963 by Warwick Charlton and Judge Gerald Sparrow
The great forgers 1963
The Golden Orchid 1963
The great abductors 1964
Visiting Egypt. With plates 1964
'R.A.B.': Study of a statesman; the career of Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, C.H 1965
Confessions of An Eccentric 1965
Churchill: Man of the century, 1874-1965 1965
The great deceivers 1968
Satan's children 1966
Rhodesia in 'rebellion' 1967
Java Weed Jul 1968
Gang-warfare. A probe into the changing pattern of British crime 1968
Great Assassins Jan 1968
Great Defenders Sep 1968
Great Deceivers 1968
The great spies 1969
Great Conspirators Nov 1969 Sanctions ... An investigation into the history of sanctions, their present operation and their future 1969
Women Who Murder 22 January 1970
Modern Saudi Arabia 1970
Great Defamers 12 Oct 1970
Vintage Edwardian Murder 22 Jul 1971
Great Intimidators Feb 1972
Vintage Victorian And Edwardian Murder 1972
Vintage Murder of the Twenties 9 Mar 1972
Green Garuda 24 August 1972
Great Persecutors 20 Nov 1972
Queens of Crime: Stories of Great Women Criminals Oct 1973
Crimes of Passion 22 Nov 1973
Great Judges 25 Mar 1974
Crime for the Connoisseur 29 Jul 1974
Invitation to South Africa 6 Nov 1974
Con Men 20 Feb 1975
How to Get Your Book Published 25 November 1979
Le milieu 1973
'The great persecuters' -- subject(s): Persecution, Massacres 'The great abductors' -- subject(s): Kidnapping 'Crime for the connoisseur' -- subject(s): Case studies, Crime 'The great assassins' -- subject(s): Assassination, Case studies 'Vintage Edwardian murder' -- subject(s): Murder, Case studies, History 'Return ticket' -- subject(s): Communism, Description and travel 'The great impostors' -- subject(s): Impostors and imposture 'Satan's children' 'Vintage Victorian murder' -- subject(s): Case studies, Murder 'The great spies' -- subject(s): Spies 'Lawyer at large' -- subject(s): Lawyers, Correspondence, reminiscences 'The great defenders' -- subject(s): Defense (Criminal procedure), Lawyers, Biography
References[edit]
- ^ Shiburnian http://oldshirburnian.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1961-Michaelmas.pdf. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Straits Times". 30 October 1955. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ "I, Said the Sparrow". The Spectator. 28 July 1979. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- ^ "Pretoria Called Wellspring of Pro-S. Africa 'Club of Ten'". The Washington Post. 5 July 1978. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
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