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Gerald Sparrow

Full name John Walter Gerald Sparrow Also known as Judge Gerald Sparrow

Born 1903 Chapel-en-le-Frith Died 1988

Evidence (FreeBMD) exists that he married Barbara E Thompson in 1929 in Chapel-en-le-Frith

Educated Sherborne and Cambridge (Trinity Hall).

President of the Cambirdge University Union 1925 He was called to the bar in 1926 and was a barrister in Manchester (England). In 1930 he became a Judge of the International Court in Bangkok. He served as a judge until he was imprisoned by Japanese in December 1941 follwoing their occupation of Thailand.

He was a prolific author writing biographies, notably the Winston Churchill Biography "Churchill, Man of the Century, 1874-1965", autobiographies, commentaries on legal affairs and notable criminal cases, e.g. "Stat and crime fiction.

In 1970 he was a candidate in the UK Parliamentary general election standing in the Huyton constituency for the Democratic Party.

He was controversially involved in the Club of Ten which organised propaganda for the apartheid South African regime. However, he subsequently became critical of the regime follwoing a visit to South Africa and the treatment of his Thai wife he witnessed there.

Married Chaluey Wonglamtong June 1954 Greenwich

Bibliography

Autobiographies/Semi-autobiographies

Biographies

Legal Commentary

Criminal Commentary

Historical

Land of the Moonflower 1955

The sphinx awakes 1956

Murder parade 1957

Return ticket 1958

How to Become an M.P. 1959

The Star Sapphires 1958

The great swindlers 1959

Lawyer at large 1960

Opium Venture, etc (Pan Books. no. G333.) 1960

How to Become a Millionaire 1960 by Gerald Sparrow and Ionicus

Hussein of Jordan 1960

Not Wisely But Too Well 1961

Modern Jordan 1961

No other elephant 1961

Gordon: Mandarin and pasha 1962

The Great Imposters 1962

Stephen Ward Speaks / The Profumo Affair: The Two-in-One Book 1963 by Warwick Charlton and Judge Gerald Sparrow

The great forgers 1963

The Golden Orchid 1963

The great abductors 1964

Visiting Egypt. With plates 1964

'R.A.B.': Study of a statesman; the career of Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, C.H 1965

Confessions of An Eccentric 1965

Churchill: Man of the century, 1874-1965 1965

The great deceivers 1968

Satan's children 1966

Rhodesia in 'rebellion' 1967

Java Weed Jul 1968

Gang-warfare. A probe into the changing pattern of British crime 1968

Great Assassins Jan 1968

Great Defenders Sep 1968

Great Deceivers 1968

The great spies 1969

Great Conspirators Nov 1969 Sanctions ... An investigation into the history of sanctions, their present operation and their future 1969

Women Who Murder 22 January 1970

Modern Saudi Arabia 1970

Great Defamers 12 Oct 1970

Vintage Edwardian Murder 22 Jul 1971

Great Intimidators Feb 1972

Vintage Victorian And Edwardian Murder 1972

Vintage Murder of the Twenties 9 Mar 1972

Green Garuda 24 August 1972

Great Persecutors 20 Nov 1972

Queens of Crime: Stories of Great Women Criminals Oct 1973

Crimes of Passion 22 Nov 1973

Great Judges 25 Mar 1974

Crime for the Connoisseur 29 Jul 1974

Invitation to South Africa 6 Nov 1974

Con Men 20 Feb 1975

How to Get Your Book Published 25 November 1979

Le milieu 1973

'The great persecuters' -- subject(s): Persecution, Massacres 'The great abductors' -- subject(s): Kidnapping 'Crime for the connoisseur' -- subject(s): Case studies, Crime 'The great assassins' -- subject(s): Assassination, Case studies 'Vintage Edwardian murder' -- subject(s): Murder, Case studies, History 'Return ticket' -- subject(s): Communism, Description and travel 'The great impostors' -- subject(s): Impostors and imposture 'Satan's children' 'Vintage Victorian murder' -- subject(s): Case studies, Murder 'The great spies' -- subject(s): Spies 'Lawyer at large' -- subject(s): Lawyers, Correspondence, reminiscences 'The great defenders' -- subject(s): Defense (Criminal procedure), Lawyers, Biography