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13 unusual facts about Oswald Mosley


Cecil Dudgeon

Cecil Randolph Dudgeon (7 November 1885 – 4 November 1970) was a Scottish Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) who joined Oswald Mosley's New Party.

Deutsche Reichspartei

In 1962 the party took part in an international conference of far right groups hosted in Venice by Oswald Mosley and signed up as members of his National Party of Europe.

Enabling act

In 1966 Oswald Mosley advocated a government of national unity drawn from "the professions, from science, from the unions and the managers, from businessmen, the housewives, from the services, from the universities, and even from the best of the politicians".

Francis William Beaumont

In 1937 Beaumont reportedly met with Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists, to discuss the opening of a private radio broadcast station on Sark.

George Watters

Watters opposed the British Union of Fascists and in May 1936 "I had a front seat at the Usher Hall and my job was to get up and create a disturbance right away by challenging Sir Oswald Mosley, which I did".

Greater Britain Movement

The name of the group was derived from The Greater Britain, a 1932 book by Oswald Mosley.

Maurice Bardèche

He was a founder of the European Social Movement (MSE) in 1951 and became its vice-president, which brought him together with leaders such as Oswald Mosley, Karl-Heinz Priester and Per Engdahl.

Radio Radio

However, after a few bars, he turned to the Attractions, waving his hand and yelling "Stop! Stop!," then said to the audience, "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, there's no reason to do this song here," possibly referring to the fact "Less than Zero" was written as a reply to British fascist politician Oswald Mosley.

Rupert Vansittart

In 1993, he appeared in Remains of the Day as Sir Geoffrey Wren, a character based on the 1930s British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.

Scenes from a Bourgeois Life

Jacob briefly saw British fascist Oswald Mosley's New Party, as a hope for putting England to rights, but quickly realised that the remedy was worse than the disease.

Tommy Moran

Thomas P. "Tommy" Moran was a leading member of the British Union of Fascists and a close associate of Oswald Mosley.

In 1934 Moran was sent by Oswald Mosley to south Wales due in large part to his mining background, following advice from J.F.C. Fuller that the BUF should target areas by sending organisers that the local population could identify with.

Usher Hall

The end to political rallies in the Usher Hall came after a serious incident in 1934, when Sir Oswald Mosley came to speak.


Douglas Francis Jerrold

Jerrold also joined the January Club, founded by Oswald Mosley in January 1934 in order to generate sympathy and some element of respectability for fascism, and in particular to court conservative opinion.

Francis Beckett

He has written a biography of his own father, John Beckett, a Labour MP from 1925 to 1931 and whip of the Independent Labour Party group of MPs; later chief propagandist for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and co-founder (with William Joyce) of the National Socialist League, who was interned during the second world war for his fascist activities.

Jack Firestein

In 1936, he was involved in the 'Battle of Cable Street', when Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts were routed by a mobilisation of East End workers.

Point Counter Point

Comparisons have been made between the character Everard Webley and his Brotherhood of British Freemen and Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.

Rolleston on Dove

It is probably best known for its one-time resident Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists.