Cyril Osborne

Sir Cyril Osborne (19 June 1898 – 31 August 1969) was a Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire and a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Louth constituency in Lincolnshire from 1945 to his death.

"[1] In 1963, Osborne penned an article for Spectator Magazine in which he argued that "if unlimited immigration were allowed, we should ultimately become a chocolate-coloured, Afro-Asian mixed society.

Later in 1965, he called on the Labour government of Harold Wilson to "ban all immigration except for genuine students and professional people who will return to their native countries at the end of a limited stay".

In the aftermath of the publication of the Wolfenden Report, Osborne led the opposition to decriminalisation of homosexuality in the House of Commons.

[4] After his death, the 1969 Louth by-election was won by the Conservative candidate Jeffrey Archer, whose political career would be ended after he was imprisoned from 2001–2003 for perjury and perverting the course of justice.