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Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters – because girls can read as well as boys – reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?

Mervyn Griffith-Jones

Mervyn Griffith-Jones

Mervyn Griffith-Jones

Born: July 1, 1909

Died: July 13, 1979 (aged 70)

Bio: John Mervyn Guthrie Griffith-Jones was a British judge and former barrister. He is most famous for leading the prosecution of Penguin Books in the obscenity trial in 1960 following the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.

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