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Jeremy Wolfenden

1934–1965

Jeremy Wolfenden was educated at Eton and Oxford, won a fellowship at All Souls and was regarded as an exceptional linguist and scholar. He left academic life for journalism and became the Daily Telegraph correspondent in Moscow during a period of intense intelligence rivalry.

Because homosexual acts remained illegal in Britain and Wolfenden lived relatively openly, Soviet intelligence was able to place him under pressure. He later moved to Washington and died in 1965 after years of heavy drinking. His life forms the third part of Sebastian Faulks’s The Fatal Englishman.

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