Socialist; last person imprisoned for blasphemy in Britain (1866-1922)
Gott, in about 1900
John William Gott (1866 – 4 November 1922)[1] was a British socialist and the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy. His was also the last public prosecution. Later prosecutions were purely private.[2]
^Royle, Edward. "Gott, John William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47693. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Patrik Hanon, "Gott's Law: Thou Shalt not Blaspheme", in Moral Theology for the 21st Century: Essays in Celebration of Kevin T. Kelly, Bernard Hoose (ed), Continuum, 2011, p164.
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