Talk:Anthony Crosland

message: I don't know where the information that Crosland died of a massive heart attack comes from, no reference given. However I have corrected it and used a source reference. paulburgin 4/6/2005—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.190.43 (talk) 22:37, 4 June 2005 (UTC)
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message: FORMER Chancellor Lord Healey has fond memories of Susan Crosland, widow of his Cabinet colleague Anthony Crosland, who died at the weekend at the age of 84. “I’m so sorry,” says Denis Healey from his house in Sussex. “She was such a lovely girl, so much nicer than Tony’s first wife, who was a pain in the arse. “Tony was a bit AC/DC, you know. Susan Barnes, as she was known, used to pander to his tastes a little by wearing mannish clothes. I remember a walking holiday with Tony in the Black Forest in Germany in the 1940s. We were with Hugh Dalton, who was his boyfriend in a way. “Tony and I had to share a bed and, when I put the light out, he said ‘I’m feeling rather randy, are you?’ “I said ‘No, I’m not. Bugger off.’ So he got into bed with Dalton instead.” 1 March 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kittybrewster (talk • contribs) 18:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: LGBT

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:58, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 

message: I've taken the liberty of removing a claim that he took "his Masters" before the war. Before the war he studied Mods, the first half of the Oxford Classics degree. After the war he returned to finish his degree, this time in PPE (it is possible he was awarded a truncated "war degree" as some were in those days, after a year or two of study, and that his PPE was some subsequent diploma, but I don't think that was the case). He would not have been eligible for his MA (which at Oxbridge is basically an automatic upgrade) until he had a) got his BA and b) six years (iirc) after matriculating and starting his BA, which would have been in the early 1940s at the very earliest. Of course if somebody wants to check a biography and put in some accurate content, feel free.Paulturtle (talk) 05:05, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Master's Degree 

message: I deleted a source as it was duplicated at the same place. It is now 14 not 13.
The article says he had gay affairs "early in life." Later it says he had affairs with women as well as marrying two women. Were all of the early affairs gay or were some of them heterosexual? Do any of the sources help. Were more than the alleged affair with Jenkins gay? The sources I have been able to check only mention Jenkins. 
The answers to these may require slight alterations to the text of the article. Spinney Hill (talk) 08:42, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay or Bisexual and when 

message: Did he "lose" his seat in 1955, or step down? Maybe the latter? RodCrosby (talk) 00:43, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the pages on the South Gloucestershire and Southampton Test constituencies he did ot stand  n South Gloucestershire in the 1955 General Election but did stand at Southampton Test. It looks as though therefore that he stepped down.  One has to ask why as in South Gloucestershire he had a majority of 5000 odd in the 1951 general election, while the Labour candidate at Southampton Test had a smaller majority. It did not look like therefore like a more winnable seat. Was there some argument in South Gloucestershire that caused him to step down or be de-selected? Do the sources help? Spinney Hill (talk) 03:30, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The answer to my question appears to be that there were boundary changes which seem to have changed the winnability of both seats. South Glos. lost its urban parts (on the edge of Bristol and thus became a more rural seat whilst Southampton test became more urban, but this is guesswork and deduction so we can't change the text of the article until a specific source can be found-perhaps in his biography. Spinney Hill (talk) 03:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if that is correct, he clearly didn't "lose his seat" but, rather, "contested another unsuccessfully" RodCrosby (talk) 23:15, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  1955