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:''"Henry Labouchere" redirects here. For his uncle, see Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton'' Henry Du Pré Labouchère (9 November 1831 – 15 January 1912) was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He lived with the actress Henrietta Hodson from 1868, and they married in 1887.〔 Labouchère, who inherited a large fortune, engaged in a number of occupations. He was a junior member of the British diplomatic service, a member of parliament in the 1860s and again from 1880 to 1906, and edited and funded his own magazine, ''Truth''. He is remembered for the Labouchère Amendment to British law, which for the first time made all male homosexual activity a crime. Unable to secure the senior positions to which he thought himself suitable, Labouchère left Britain and retired to Italy. ==Life and career== Labouchère was born in London to a family of Huguenot extraction. His father, John Peter Labouchère (d. 1863), a banker, was the second son of French parents who had settled in Britain in 1816.〔Thorold, p. 13〕 His mother, Mary Louisa ''née'' Du Pré (1799–1863) was from an English family.〔Thorold, p. 16〕 Labouchère was the eldest of their three sons and six daughters.〔Booth, Michael R. ("Terry, Dame Ellen Alice (1847–1928)", ) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2008, accessed 4 January 2010〕 He was the nephew of the Whig politician Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton, who, despite disapproving of his rebellious nephew, helped the young man's early career and left him a sizeable inheritance when he died leaving no male heir.〔Sidebotham, Herbert, H. C. G. Matthew. ("Labouchere, Henry Du Pré (1831–1912)", ) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, October 2009 accessed 26 May 2011 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Labouchère」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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