Gilbert Armitage
British lawyer and journalist
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Gilbert Armitage was a British lawyer, critic and journalist who was associated with Percy Wyndham Lewis.
Armitage wrote for the Yorkshire Post in the 1930s where he was a contemporary of Hugh Ross Williamson, Brooke Crutchley, Iverach MacDonald, Charles Davy and Colin Brooks.[1] Among the journals that he contributed to were Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review, Julian Symons' Twentieth Century Verse and the English Review. He was a member of the Whitefriars and Coningsby clubs.[2]
Armitage's Banned in England was inspired by the 1932 trial and conviction of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk for obscenity.[3]
Selected publications
- Banned in England: An Examination of the Law Relating to Obscene Publications. London: Wishart, 1932. (Here & Now Pamphlets. No. 7.)
- The History of the Bow Street Runners, 1729-1829. London: Wishart, 1932.
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