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Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell (22 May 1905 – 12 August 1976) 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.
Aug 13, 1976 · LONDON, Aug. 12 (AP)—Tom Driberg, a controversial former Member of Parliament collapsed in a taxi and died at London hospital today. He was 71 years old.
Dec 3, 2015 · A retired Met Police detective claims that police were blocked from charging Driberg, a prominent Labour politician and a KGB spy, in 1968. Simon Danczuk, a Labour MP, demands documents from the Crown Prosecution Service to investigate the allegations.
Tom Driberg. Tom Driberg was born at Crowborough, East Suss ex, on 22nd May 1905. His father, John Driberg, worked for the Indian Civil Service. Educated at Lancing College, Driberg joined the Communist Party when he was fifteen. Driberg went to Christ Church, Oxford, and studied classics (1924-27) but left without graduating.
Apr 10, 1992 · A biography of Tom Driberg, a gossip columnist, suspected Soviet agent, Labour MP and peer, and a notorious homosexual. The book covers his friendships, political career, sexual adventures, and contradictions in a turbulent era.
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Tom Driberg (Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell of Bradwell, 1905–1976) was a journalist and Labour politician. He was born at Crowborough, which he later described as "a place which I can never revisit, or think of, without a feeling of sick horror".
Mar 26, 2023 · Tom Driberg was a journalist who served as a British Member of Parliament (MP) almost continuously from 1942 to 1974, with a small gap from 1955 to 1959. For twenty years before being elected to the House of Commons, Driberg had been a member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party.
