Henry Du Pre Labouchere (9 November 1831 - 15 January 1912) was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He married the actress Henrietta Hodson. Labouchere, who inherited a large fortune, engaged in a number of occupations. He was a junior member of the British diplomatic service, a Member of Parliament in the 1860s and again from 1880 to 1906, and edited and funded his own magazine, Truth. He is remembered for the Labouchere Amendment to British law, which for the first time made all male homosexual activity a crime. Unable to secure the...