Widgery report
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John Widgery, Baron Widgery
English judge (1911–1981)
John Passmore Widgery, Baron Widgery, OBE, TD, PC (24 July 1911 – 26 July 1981) was an English judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1971 to 1980. He is principally noted for presiding over the Widgery Tribunal on the events of Bloody Sunday.[1]
Early career and war service
Widgery came from a North Devon family which had been living in South Molton for many generations. 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.[2] An ancestor had been a gaoler.[citation needed] Widgery attended Queen's College, Taunton, where he became head prefect.
He was admitted as a solicitor in 1933 after serving as an articled clerk, but instead of going into practice, he joined Gibson and Welldon, a well-known firm of law tutors. He was an effective lecturer in the years
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David Widgery
British writer
David Widgery (27 April 1947 – 26 October 1992) was a British Marxist writer, journalist, polemicist, physician, and activist.[1][2]
Biography
Widgery was born in Barnet and grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He contracted polio as a child and was expelled from sixth form for publishing a magazine.[1]
In 1965, Widgery met Allen Ginsberg, then visited Watts, where he encountered the civil rights movement, followed by Cuba. On return to Britain, he studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School before writing for the New Statesman and Oz magazines, becoming co-editor of Oz during 1971.[1]
Widgery joined the International Socialists in 1967, remaining in the group when it became the Socialist Workers Party in 1977. He began working at Bethnal Green Hospital in 1972, worked at St Leonard's Hospital in the late 1970s and later in the decade he published his first book, The Left in Britain, 1956–68.[1]
Widgery contributed to Ink, Time Out and City Limits, al
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Frederick John Widgery
A plaque at 11 Howell Road, Exeter, EX4 4LG, reads:
Exeter Civic Society. F. J. Widgery, 1861-1942, Landscape painter and Freeman of Exeter, lived here, 1891-1940. Exetercivicsociety.org.uk
F. J. Widgery (pictured right in 1901) liked to be known as the man who put the letters FJ into Exeter’s car registrations. He was mayor when the letters were allocated in 1904 but the fact that they were the mayor’s initials was just a coincidence. However, F.J. Widgery has more substantial claims to fame.
When an exhibition of paintings by him was displayed at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter in 2013, the museum had this to say about him:
“Frederick John Widgery, known as ‘FJ’, lived much of his life in Exeter. Like his father [William Widgery, also an artist], FJ’s primary source of inspiration was Dartmoor but he also visited the Exe estuary and Woodbury Common as well as other sections of the Devon and Cornwall coastline.
“Unlike his father, the young FJ enjoyed an extended period of training. Having attended Exeter Cathedral School, h
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