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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Position Established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Anderson,_Baron_Anderson_of_Swansea" title="Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea">Donald Anderson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Torfaen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Torfaen (UK Parliament constituency)">Torfaen</a><br /><style 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Torfaen">Paul Murphy</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Cardiff_County_Borough_Council" title="Cardiff County Borough Council">Member of Cardiff City Council</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1953–1958</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Leopold Abse</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1917-04-22</span>)</span>22 April 1917<br /><a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a>, Wales</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">19 August 2008<span style="display:none">(2008-08-19)</span> (aged 91)<br /><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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"counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Author</li><li>MP</li><li><a href="/wiki/Solicitor" title="Solicitor">solicitor</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Leopold Abse</b> (22 April 1917 – 19 August 2008)<sup id="cite_ref-Times_obit_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He was a <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Labour" title="Welsh Labour">British Labour</a> MP for nearly 30 years, noted for promoting <a href="/wiki/Private_member%27s_bill" title="Private member's bill">private member's bills</a> to decriminalise male <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexual relations</a> and liberalise the <a href="/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorce</a> laws. During his parliamentary career, Abse introduced more private member's bills than any other parliamentarian in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his retirement from Parliament he wrote several books about politics, based on his interest in <a href="/wiki/Psychoanalysis" title="Psychoanalysis">psychoanalysis</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_background">Family and background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Family and background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leo Abse was one of the sons of Rudolf Abse, a <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewish</a> solicitor and cinema owner who lived in <a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a>. His maternal grandfather, Tobias, had emigrated to Wales from <a href="/wiki/Siemiatycze" title="Siemiatycze">Siemiatycze</a>, a Polish town then located within the Russian Empire.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His grandmother came from Germany. Abse's younger brother <a href="/wiki/Dannie_Abse" title="Dannie Abse">Dannie Abse</a> (1923–2014) was a poet, and his older brother <a href="/wiki/Wilfred_Abse" title="Wilfred Abse">Wilfred Abse</a> (1915–2005) a psychoanalyst. He also had a sister, Hulda.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abse attended <a href="/wiki/Howard_Gardens_High_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Howard Gardens High School">Howard Gardens High School</a> in Cardiff and then the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a>, where he studied law. Having joined the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> in 1934, he clandestinely visited <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> during the closing months of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>, in 1939.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_obit_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_obit-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abse married Marjorie Davies in 1955. They had two children: <a href="/wiki/Tobias_Abse" title="Tobias Abse">Tobias</a> (now a <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> historian) and Bathsheba. Marjorie died in 1996. His second marriage was to Ania Czepulkowska, in 2000, when Abse was 83 and Czepulkowska 33. Abse died on 19 August 2008. Some 10 years after her husband died, Mrs Czepulkowska-Abse broke her silence and spoke to the <i><a href="/wiki/South_Wales_Argus" title="South Wales Argus">South Wales Argus</a></i> and paid tribute to her husband. She confirmed that she is still living and working in London.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_involvement">Political involvement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political involvement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> Abse served in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a>. He was in <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a> in 1944 when some of the British military personnel stationed there set up a "<a href="/wiki/Forces_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Forces Parliament">Forces Parliament</a>" in which they debated the structure of society they wanted to see in the post-war world. Abse's idealistic left-wing views were fully in tune with the majority opinion among the lower ranks at its meetings, but the existence of the "Parliament" disturbed the senior officers. When Abse moved a motion supporting <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalization</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a> he was arrested and the Forces Parliament was forcibly dissolved. </p><p>After the end of the war Abse set up in practice as a solicitor in Cardiff. In 1951 he established his own law firm, Leo Abse & Cohen, which eventually grew to be the biggest in the city. He was also elected as Chairman of Cardiff Labour Party for two years from 1951, relinquishing the post when he was elected to <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_County_Borough_Council" title="Cardiff County Borough Council">Cardiff City Council</a> in 1953.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abse fought the safe Conservative seat of <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cardiff North (UK Parliament constituency)">Cardiff North</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">1955 general election</a>, and was defeated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_Parliament">In Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Granville_West,_Baron_Granville-West" title="Granville West, Baron Granville-West">Granville West</a>, the Labour MP for <a href="/wiki/Pontypool_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Pontypool (UK Parliament constituency)">Pontypool</a> and, like Abse, a solicitor, was awarded one of the first <a href="/wiki/Life_peerage" class="mw-redirect" title="Life peerage">life peerages</a> in 1958. Unusually for a town in the South Wales valleys at that time, the <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Mineworkers_(Great_Britain)" title="National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)">National Union of Mineworkers</a> was not in control of the nomination of West's successor as Labour candidate, since Pontypool was a centre of the railway industry. Abse won the candidature and then won the seat at the <a href="/wiki/1958_Pontypool_by-election" title="1958 Pontypool by-election">by-election</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> Abse swiftly acquired a reputation for independence of spirit. He made a point of dressing flamboyantly on Budget Day and liked to drop references from <a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Freudian</a> <a href="/wiki/Psychotherapy" title="Psychotherapy">psychotherapy</a> into his speeches. Abse made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 22 January 1959 on the subject of education, mentioning that he had a primary school in his constituency which had two classes of over 50 pupils in one room.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although his abilities might have taken him to high office, Abse remained a backbench MP. This factor, together with the safety of his seat, freed him from the restrictions that dissuaded many other MPs from taking up controversial subjects. </p><p>In 1963, Abse was selected in third place in the ballot for <a href="/wiki/Private_Member%27s_Bill" class="mw-redirect" title="Private Member's Bill">Private Member's Bills</a> and introduced the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Matrimonial_Causes_Bill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matrimonial Causes Bill (page does not exist)">Matrimonial Causes Bill</a>, which simplified and made easier the legal process of <a href="/wiki/Divorce" title="Divorce">divorce</a>. </p><p>In the mid-1960s, Abse began corresponding with members of the <a href="/wiki/Humanists_UK" title="Humanists UK">British Humanist Association</a> and other MPs and peers who were non-religious and had shared ethical views and political ambitions. Together they founded the <a href="/wiki/All-Party_Parliamentary_Humanist_Group" title="All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group">All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group</a>, whose concerns at that time included homosexual law reform, abortion law reform, and racial and religious equality.<sup id="cite_ref-HH_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HH-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1957 the <a href="/wiki/Wolfenden_Report" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolfenden Report">Wolfenden Report</a> had recommended that the law be changed to decriminalise consenting male <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexual</a> sex, but the government had taken no action. Abse began to promote <a href="/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967" title="Sexual Offences Act 1967">a Bill</a> to put Wolfenden's recommendations into law in February 1962. He kept pressing the issue, and after <a href="/wiki/Humphry_Berkeley" title="Humphry Berkeley">Humphry Berkeley</a> (<a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> MP for <a href="/wiki/Lancaster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lancaster (UK Parliament constituency)">Lancaster</a>) lost his seat in the <a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966 general election</a>, Abse became the main sponsor for the legalisation. Although with the Labour landslide of 1966 there was a majority for the bill, it was still vulnerable but Abse persuaded <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a> to give the measure government time, which eventually saw the bill through onto the statute book as the <a href="/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967" title="Sexual Offences Act 1967">Sexual Offences Act 1967</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1968 he was appointed to a <a href="/wiki/Home_Office" title="Home Office">Home Office</a> advisory committee on the penal system. He was elected Chairman of the group of Welsh Labour MPs in 1971. </p><p>In 1973, Abse requested that the government ban the rock singer <a href="/wiki/Alice_Cooper" title="Alice Cooper">Alice Cooper</a> and his group from performing in England, stating that Cooper was "peddling the culture of the <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">concentration camp</a>". Abse said: "Pop is one thing, anthems of <a href="/wiki/Necrophilia" title="Necrophilia">necrophilia</a> are quite another".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abse was chosen as chairman of a <a href="/wiki/Select_committee_(United_Kingdom)" title="Select committee (United Kingdom)">select committee</a> on <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> from 1975 to 1977. His report advocated restrictions on abortion, including a lowering of the time limit within which abortion was legal from 28 weeks. He fought in the House of Commons for the enactment of his committee's recommendations, and continued the fight in 1980 when the Conservative MP <a href="/wiki/John_Corrie" title="John Corrie">John Corrie</a> proposed a bill along similar lines: Abse refused to compromise on a limit of 24 weeks. </p><p>Abse was an opponent of <a href="/wiki/Devolution" title="Devolution">devolution</a> when it was proposed in the late 1970s. He also proposed a separate referendum on whether the <a href="/wiki/Shetland_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Shetland Islands">Shetland Islands</a> ought to be part of a devolved <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. Abse was briefly Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Affairs_Select_Committee" title="Welsh Affairs Select Committee">Welsh Affairs Select Committee</a> when it was first set up in January 1980, but resigned in November 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the reasons he opposed devolution was that he thought some in Wales, whom he called "fanatics", wanted to use it to promote the use of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh language</a>. </p><p>Abse added to his reputation for taking maverick stances by strongly urging that British forces be withdrawn from <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. He opposed <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power" title="Nuclear power">nuclear power</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear weapons">nuclear weapons</a>, and criticised <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> for insisting that <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> unconditionally surrender over the <a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands" title="Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a>. He supported British membership of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Communities</a>. His support for liberal divorce laws led him to propose a new 'child-centred' divorce reform in the early 1980s; the bill was piloted by <a href="/wiki/Martin_Stevens_(politician)" title="Martin Stevens (politician)">Martin Stevens</a>, Conservative MP for <a href="/wiki/Fulham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Fulham (UK Parliament constituency)">Fulham</a>. </p><p>Abse was elected for the renamed seat of <a href="/wiki/Torfaen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Torfaen (UK Parliament constituency)">Torfaen</a> in 1983, but retired from Parliament in 1987. His nomination for a seat in the House of Lords was vetoed by Margaret Thatcher.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_obit_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retirement_and_later_writings">Retirement and later writings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Retirement and later writings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first of the books Abse wrote following retirement, <i>Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice</i> (1989), is a "psycho-biography" of Margaret Thatcher, taking its title from the observation that while Mrs Thatcher frequently referred to her father, she claimed not to have had anything to say to her mother from the age of 15. </p><p>In <i>Wotan, My Enemy</i> (1994) Abse took a psychoanalytic approach to explaining the origin of British hostility to Germany and the idea of the European Union. In <i>The Man behind the Smile: Tony Blair and the Politics of Perversion</i> (1996), Abse highlighted some of the aspects of <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> that were later to be cited by Blair's opponents on the left. A revised edition, <i>Tony Blair: The Man who Lost His Smile</i> (2003), was published in the United States. In this edition Abse took the opportunity to claim that he had paid off a <a href="/wiki/Blackmail" title="Blackmail">blackmailer</a> who had been targeting a fellow Welsh MP <a href="/wiki/George_Thomas,_1st_Viscount_Tonypandy" title="George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy">George Thomas</a> (Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983), on the basis of Thomas's (closeted) homosexuality. </p><p>Finally, in <i>Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love</i> (1997), Abse drew attention to the fact that fellatio had been unspoken of a generation before but had come to be seen as an essential part of casual sexual relationships. He analysed the tendency for men to engage in risky behaviour by placing their trust in women whom they barely knew and linked it to political developments. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Memorial">Memorial</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Memorial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A bust of Abse was unveiled at the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="National Museum of Wales">National Museum of Wales</a> in Cardiff on 22 October 2009. The sculpture was funded by the firm of solicitors he founded, Leo Abse and Cohen, and was made by Abse's second cousin, Luke Shepherd.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abse was played by actor Anthony O'Donnell in the TV series <i>A Very English Scandal</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Private Member</i> (MacDonald, London, 1973)</li> <li><i>Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice</i> (Jonathan Cape, London, 1989)</li> <li><i>Wotan, My Enemy</i> (Robson Books, London, 1994)</li> <li><i>Tony Blair: The Man behind the Smile</i> (Robson Books, London, 1996)</li> <li><i>Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love</i> (Robson Books, London, 1997)</li> <li><i>Tony Blair: The Man who Lost his Smile</i> (Robson Books, London, 2003)</li> <li><i>The Bi-sexuality of Daniel Defoe: a psychoanalytic survey of the man and his works</i> (Karnac Books, London, 2006)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Leo Abse" in <i>Parliamentary Profiles A–D</i> by <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Roth" title="Andrew Roth">Andrew Roth</a> (Parliamentary Profiles Services Ltd, London, 1984)</li> <li><i>Peers, Queers and Commons</i> by Stephen Jeffery-Poulter (Routledge, London, 1991)</li> <li><i>Quest for Justice: Towards Homosexual Emancipation</i> by Antony Grey (<a href="/wiki/Sinclair-Stevenson" title="Sinclair-Stevenson">Sinclair-Stevenson</a>, London, 1992)</li> <li>"The Troublemakers..." by Stephen Cretney, in <i>The Continuing Evolution of Family Law</i>, edited by N. Lowe and G. Douglas (Jordans, Bristol, 2009).</li> <li><i>Family Law in the Twentieth Century: A History</i> (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2003)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Times_obit-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Times_obit_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Times_obit_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100531134154/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4573641.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2">"Leo Abse: MP who fought to reform homosexuality and divorce laws"</a>. <i>The Times</i>. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/gay_rights/12005.shtml">the original</a> on 18 August 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Why+should+homosexuality+be+decriminalised%3F&rft.date=1966-12-20&rft.au=Patricia+Brent+and+Leo+Abse&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Farchive%2Fgay_rights%2F12005.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeo+Abse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Source: booklet of "The life and crimes of <a href="/wiki/Alice_Cooper" title="Alice Cooper">Alice Cooper</a>" 4 CD box set.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://members.parliament.uk/member/662/career">"Parliamentary career for Leo Abse - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament"</a>. <i>members.parliament.uk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 June</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Leo+Abse&rft.date=2008-08-20&rft.aulast=Goodman&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F2008%2Faug%2F21%2Flabour.houseofcommons&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeo+Abse" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leo_Abse&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/relationships/collections1/sexual-offences-act-1967/leo-abse-mp/">Leo Abse- 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act - UK Parliament Living Heritage</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article632537.ece">Leo Abse and his brother Dannie</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged September 2024">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> - a joint interview in <i>The Times</i> November 2006</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leo-abse-labour-mp-whose-parliamentary-bills-helped-liberalise-british-society-904024.html">Obituary in The Independent</a> by <a href="/wiki/Tam_Dalyell" title="Tam Dalyell">Tam Dalyell</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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