Tom Driberg
British journalist, politician and clergyman (1905-1976) · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Died at 71
Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell was a British journalist, politician, High Anglican churchman and possible Soviet spy, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1942 to 1955, and again from 1959 to 1974.
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Lancing College in West Sussex; the tall building to the right is the Gothic Revival Lancing College Chapel
Christ Church, Oxford in the snow; photographed in 2004
Portrait (1915) of Edith Sitwell, Driberg's early mentor (by Roger Fry)
The Art Deco Daily Express building in Fleet Street, London
British Eighth Army Commander Gen. Neil Ritchie (centre, with pipe). The surrender of Tobruk on 21 June 1942 after Ritchie's defeat at Gazala may have contributed to Driberg's by-election victory.
Clement Attlee with King George VI, following the Labour Party's election in 1945. Attlee served as prime minister from 1945 to 1951.![Bradwell Lodge in Essex[40] in 2011](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Bradwell_Lodge%2C_Bradwell_on_Sea_%28geograph_6034387%29.jpg/500px-Bradwell_Lodge%2C_Bradwell_on_Sea_%28geograph_6034387%29.jpg)
Bradwell Lodge in Essex[40] in 2011About this person
A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain for more than twenty years, he was first elected to Parliament as an Independent and joined the Labour Party in 1945. He never held any ministerial office, but rose to senior positions within the Labour Party and was a popular and influential figure in left-wing politics for many years.
