Alec Stewart Horsley (1 September 1902 – 11 June 1993) was a British businessman, Quaker, and peace movement advocate.
Born in Ripley, Derbyshire and educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read PPE, Alec Horsley entered and later abandoned the Colonial Service.
[1] Horsley was part of the Common Wealth Party during the 1940s, participated in the Committee of 100 and was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends.
He was a prison reformer and was made an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford under the Provostship of Asa Briggs, who also wrote his obituary.
[1] He was the subject of the first part of The Vice of Kings: How Fabianism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse, by his grandson Jasun Horsley, published by Aeon Books in 2018.