Derrick Sherwin Bailey | |
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| Born | 30 June 1910 Alcester, England |
| Died | 9 February 1984 (aged 73) |
| Alma mater | Alcester Grammar School |
Derrick Sherwin Bailey (30 June 1910 – 9 February 1984) was an English Christian theologian, born at Alcester in Warwickshire, whose 1955 work Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition paved the way for the production of the 1957 Wolfenden report and for the Parliament of the United Kingdom's decriminalization of homosexuality in England and Wales a decade later.