Everything about John William Gott totally explained
John William Gott (1866–1922) was the last person in
Britain to be sent to prison for
blasphemy. A trouser salesman from
Bradford, he led the
Freethought Socialist League.
In
1911, Gott was sentenced to four months in jail for publishing attacks on Christianity. Further punishment followed in 1916, 1917 and 1918. He was tried again for blasphemy at the
Old Bailey in
London in 1921, found guilty and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. The Lord Chief Justice dismissed an appeal with the observation: “It doesn't require a person of strong religious feelings to be outraged by a description of Jesus Christ entering Jerusalem ‘like a circus clown on the back of two donkeys’.”
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