Background
Peter Wildeblood was born on May 19, 1923, in Alassio, Liguria, Italy. He was a son of Henry Seddon Wildeblood and Winifred Isabel. He was brought up in his parents' cottage near Ashdown Forest in Sussex, United Kingdom.
Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BH, United Kingdom
Trinity College where Peter Wildeblood studied.
(Against the Law tells the story of Wildeblood's childhood...)
Against the Law tells the story of Wildeblood's childhood and schooldays, his war service, his career as a journalist, his arrest, trial and imprisonment, and finally his return to freedom. In its honesty and restraint it is eloquent testimony to the inhumanity of the treatment of gay men in Britain within living memory.
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1955
Peter Wildeblood was born on May 19, 1923, in Alassio, Liguria, Italy. He was a son of Henry Seddon Wildeblood and Winifred Isabel. He was brought up in his parents' cottage near Ashdown Forest in Sussex, United Kingdom.
Peter Wildeblood earned scholarships to Radley and Trinity College, Oxford. His time at Oxford was interrupted by the war, during which he served in the RAF, largely in Southern Rhodesia, but refused to go for a commission. After demobilization Wildeblood returned to the university and graduated with second-class honors.
Peter Wildeblood started his career as a hotel waiter in London while writing at night. At the same time, he sold articles to Vogue, Printer's Pie and Punch. He worked as a journalist in the Daily Mail's regional office in Leeds. On 9 January 1954, Wildeblood was arrested and in March he was brought before the British courts. He, Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers were charged with "conspiracy to incite certain male persons to commit serious offenses with male persons". Wildeblood and Pitt-Rivers were sentenced to 18 months in prison as a result of these and other charges.
Peter Wildeblood published his book Against the Law, which detailed his experiences at the hands of the law and the British establishment and encouraged campaigns for prison reform and for reform of law regarding homosexuality. Later he wrote two novels of London life, The Main Chance and West End People. Wildeblood wrote a second book on the subject of homosexuality called A Way of Life. He wrote the book and lyrics, to Peter Greenwell's music, for the London musical The Crooked Mile. In the early 1970s he immigrated to Canada, where he accepted a position writing and producing television scripts and programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Wildeblood moved to Canada, becoming a citizen of the country in the 1980s. In 1994, he suffered a stroke which left him without the power of speech and quadriplegic. He died in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in 1999.
(Against the Law tells the story of Wildeblood's childhood...)
1955Peter Wildeblood had an affair with an RAF corporal called Edward McNally.