Information om | Engelska ordet WIDGERY

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• Later, he publicly reprimanded Major Hubert O'Neil, the coroner presiding over the inquest, when O'Neil accused the soldiers who opened fire during the incident of murder, as this contradicted the findings of the Widgery Tribunal.
• When Widgery died, aged 45, excess alcohol, barbiturates and pethidine were found in his bloodstream, but it is not known whether this was an accidental or intentional overdose.
• His father, Samuel Widgery (died 1940), was a grocer and house furnisher; his mother Bertha Elizabeth, née Passmore, was Samuel's second wife, belonged to a landowning family (Grilstone, Bishop's Nympton, Devon) and served as a local magistrate.
• As with freemasonry in other countries, the United Grand Lodge of England has featured as the subject of Masonic conspiracy theories; the most persistent of these attempts to link freemasonry to a "cover-up" or whitewash of the Jack the Ripper case (in some cases, conspiracy theorists have claimed that the killings were masonic ritual murder), the inquiry into the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (though Lord Mersey, Sydney Buxton and Lord Pirrie), and Bloody Sunday (though Lord Widgery).
• Describing the British pacifist tradition in the 1950s, David Widgery wrote "at its most likeable it was the sombre decency of Peace News, then a vegetarian tabloid with a Quaker emphasis on active witness".
• The overdue retirement of Lord Widgery, whose physical ill-health and increasing dementia had become a suppressed scandal, led to Hailsham picking Lane to follow him as Lord Chief Justice from 1980.
• John Passmore Widgery, Baron Widgery of South Molton, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 1971–1980.
• Later testifying before Widgery that nail bombs had been thrown, the paratroopers opened fire, injuring 15-year-old Damien Donaghy, who had been throwing stones, and 59-year-old John Johnston, a passerby not involved with either the march or the stone-throwing.
• Editors included William Shaen, Alexander Edward Miller, William Mitchell Fawcett (from 1872 to 1912), John Mason Lightwood (from 1912 to 1925), David Hughes Parry (from 1925 to 1928), John Robert Perceval-Maxwell (from 1928 to 1929), Thomas Cunliffe (from 1929 to 1948), John Passmore Widgery (from 1948 to 1955), Philip Asterley Jones (from 1956 to 1968), Neville David Vandyk (from 1 April 1968 to 1988), Julian Harris and Marie Staunton (from 1990 to 1997).

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