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Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, was a British politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow from 1918 to 1924 and for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931. He founded the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932 and led it until its forced disbandment in 1940.
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politics · British fascist politician (1896–1980) · politician · aircraft pilot · also Oswald Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoats, Mosley
Born 16 November 1896 · Died 3 December 1980 · Q332400
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2026· 2 entries
WKOW: Rock County Board appoints Dara Mosley as new IT director after 30 years with the county
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2025· 1 entry
British historical drama series Outrageous
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2006· 1 entry
BBC History magazine selected Mosley as the 20th century's worst Briton
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1992· 1 entry
Prime Minister John Major examined Mosley's ideas to find an unorthodox solution to the aftermath of the 1990–91 economic recession
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1980· 1 entry
Died 1980-12-03.
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1968· 2 entries
Mosley recalled that the war in Ireland had ‘evoked intense moral feeling’
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Remarked in a letter to The Times, "I am not, and never have been, a man of the right
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1963· 1 entry
Spearheading an effort to pass legislation revoking the citizenship of all Jews; the plan fails in the short term
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1961· 2 entries
Took part in a debate at University College London about Commonwealth immigration, seconded by a young David Irving
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Richard Crossman wrote: "this brilliant memorandum was a whole generation ahead of Labour thinking
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1948· 1 entry
Formed the Union Movement, which called for a single nation-state to cover the continent of Europe (known as Europe a Nation) and in 1962 attempted to launch a National Party of Europe to this end
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1945· 1 entry
Moved to Crowood Farm, located near Marlborough, Wiltshire, which he ran
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1943· 3 entries
Mosley lived with his second wife, Diana, at Crux Easton, Hampshire
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And, politically disgraced by his association with fascism, moved abroad in 1951, spending most of the remainder of his life in France and Ireland
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Ewan MacColl wrote the song "The Leader's a Bleeder", set to the tune of the Irish song "The Old Orange Flute"
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1939· 2 entries
Mosley was implicated in a fascist conspiracy organised by the Right Club against the British government by Archibald Maule Ramsay
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MI5 uncovered Mosley's ties to a fascist conspiracy initiated by Archibald Maule Ramsay and the Right Club, known as the Kensington Conspiracy
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1937· 2 entries
With Francis Beaumont, heir to the Seigneurage of Sark, to set up a privately owned radio station on Sark
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The BUF stood in three wards in East London (some former New Party seats), its strongest areas, polling up to a quarter of the vote
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1936· 2 entries
Included a storyline involving Mosley, the BUF and the Battle of Cable Street
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During which anti-fascist demonstrators including trade unionists, liberals, socialists, communists, anarchists and British Jews prevented the BUF from marching through the East End of London
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1934· 1 entry
Were increasingly worried that Mosley's noted oratory skills would convince the public to provide financial support to the BUF, enabling it to challenge the political establishment
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1933· 2 entries
At 34 after an operation for peritonitis following acute appendicitis
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After which Mosley married his mistress Diana Guinness, née Mitford (1910–2003)
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1932· 1 entry
And led it until its forced disbandment in 1940
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1931· 2 entries
Mosley went on a study tour of the "new movements" of Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini and other fascists, and returned convinced, particularly by Fascist Italy's economic programme, that it was the way forward for Britain
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Career landmark: member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1931–1931).
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1930· 1 entry
Over discord with the government's unemployment policies
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1929· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1929–1930).
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Career landmark: member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1929–1931).
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1928· 1 entry
Succeeded his father as the sixth Mosley baronet, a title in his family for over a century
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1927· 1 entry
Mocked the British Fascists as "black-shirted buffoons, making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers"
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1926· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1926–1929).
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And served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Labour government of 1929–1931
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1924· 1 entry
Lady Cynthia joined the Labour Party, and was elected as the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent in the 1929 United Kingdom general election
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1923· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 33rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1923–1924).
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Nicholas Mosley (1923–2017; later 3rd Baron Ravensdale, a title inherited from his mother's family), 7th Baronet of Ancoats; he was a novelist and wrote a biography of his father and edited his memoirs for publication.
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1922· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
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1918· 2 entries
By Erich von Stalhein (from the Biggles series by W
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Career landmark: member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1918–1922).
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1912· 1 entry
Briefly staying in Brest, France in summer 1913, where he competed in fencing
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1909· 1 entry
At the age of 12, a year early, and found school both hard and boring; he did not socialise
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1901· 1 entry
When Mosley was aged five and while his mother was pregnant with her third child, the couple split over his womanising – Edwards-Heathcote had discovered letters revealing that her husband was saying and giving the same
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-11-16.
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