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April Ashley, the Glossary

April Ashley (29 April 1935 – 27 December 2021), styled from 1963 to 1970 as The Honourable April Corbett, was an English model, author, and LGBT rights activist.^[1]

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Corbett family (United Kingdom)
English transgender writers
Entertainers from Liverpool
Models from Liverpool
People from Hay-on-Wye
Transgender case law in the United Kingdom
Transgender memoirists
Wives of younger sons of peers

Alder Hey Children's Hospital

Alder Hey Children's Hospital is a children's hospital and NHS foundation trust in West Derby, Liverpool, England.

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Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear (born 18 June or 18 November 1939 or 1941 or 1946 or 1950 in Saigon or Hong Kong or Hanoi) is a French singer, songwriter, painter, television presenter, actress, and former model.

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Annulment

Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.

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Arthur Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan

Captain Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan (17 December 1919 – 24 June 1993), was a British aristocrat most notable for successfully having his second marriage annulled in 1970 on the grounds that his wife April Ashley, a transgender woman, was legally male. April Ashley and Arthur Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan are Corbett family (United Kingdom).

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Boarding house

A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, and years.

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Bob Hope

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.

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British Vogue

British Vogue is a British fashion magazine based in London and first published in 1916.

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Casablanca

Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.

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Channel 5 (British TV channel)

Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's UK and Australia division.

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Coccinelle

Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (23 August 1931 – 9 October 2006), better known by her stage name Coccinelle ("ladybug" in French), was a French actress, entertainer, singer, and transgender activist.

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Corbett v Corbett

Corbett v Corbett (otherwise Ashley) is a 1970 family law divorce case heard between November and December 1969 by the High Court of England and Wales in which Arthur Corbett sought annulment of his marriage to April Ashley. April Ashley and Corbett v Corbett are Corbett family (United Kingdom) and transgender case law in the United Kingdom.

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David Bailey

David Royston Bailey (born 2 January 1938) is an English photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties.

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Digital Transgender Archive

The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is an online resource based at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in collaboration with more than sixty international colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections.

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Drag (entertainment)

Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes.

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Duke of the Infantado

Duke of the Infantado (Duque del Infantado) is a Spanish peerage title that was granted to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Figueroa, son of Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, on 22 July 1475.

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Duncan Fallowell

Duncan Fallowell (born 26 September 1948) is an English novelist, travel writer, memoirist, journalist and critic. April Ashley and Duncan Fallowell are 21st-century English memoirists.

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Eton College

Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.

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Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.

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Ford, Merseyside

Ford is an area and electoral ward in the borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England.

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Fulham

Fulham is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Gender-affirming surgery

Gender-affirming surgery is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender.

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Georges Burou

Georges Burou (6 September 1910 – 17 December 1987) was a French gynecologist who managed a clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, and is widely credited with innovating modern sex reassignment surgery for trans women.

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Grayson Perry

Sir Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster.

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.

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Hay-on-Wye

Hay-on-Wye (Y Gelli Gandryll), known locally as Hay (Y Gelli), is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, in the historic county of Brecknockshire.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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Homotopia (festival)

Homotopia is an international LGBTQ+ arts festival held annually in Liverpool, England.

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Hypocalcemia

Hypocalcemia is a medical condition characterized by low calcium levels in the blood serum.

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John Blake (English journalist)

John Blake (born 6 November 1948) is an English publisher and former journalist.

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John Prescott

John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007.

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Le Carrousel de Paris

Le Carrousel de Paris was a Parisian cabaret most famous for its 1950s revues of cross-dressing and trans performers such as Coccinelle.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)

The British Merchant Navy is the collective name given to British civilian ships and their associated crews, including officers and ratings.

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Michael Freedland

Michael Rodney Freedland (18 December 1934 – 1 October 2018) The Jewish Chronicle.

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Michael Hutchence

Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Myocardial infarction

A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.

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Nocturnal enuresis

Nocturnal enuresis (NE), also informally called bedwetting, is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control usually begins.

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Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif (عمر الشريف, born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub; 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Ormskirk District General Hospital

Ormskirk and District General Hospital is an acute hospital in Ormskirk, Lancashire.

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Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an English stage and film actor.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.

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RMS Queen Mary

RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.

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Siân Phillips

Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips (born 14 May 1933), known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress.

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Smithdown Road

Smithdown Road is a historic street in Liverpool, England, which now forms part of the A562.

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Southbank Centre

Southbank Centre is a complex of artistic venues in London, England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge).

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St George's Hall, Liverpool

St George's Hall is a building on St George's Place, opposite Lime Street railway station in the centre of Liverpool, England.

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Stage name

A stage name or professional name is a pseudonym used by performers, authors, and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians.

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Steward's assistant

A steward's assistant (SA) is an unlicensed, entry-level crewmember in the Steward's department of a merchant ship.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Road to Hong Kong

The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 British semi-musical comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, as well as Joan Collins, with an extended cameo featuring Dorothy Lamour in the setting of Hong Kong under British Rule.

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The Sunday People

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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This Morning (TV programme)

This Morning is a British daytime magazine programme that is broadcast on ITV.

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Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan

Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, (19 December 1895 – 30 November 1977), had a distinguished military career in the British Army and was Governor of Tasmania from 1959 to 1963. April Ashley and Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan are Corbett family (United Kingdom).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley

Also known as April Ashley West, April Corbett, Mrs Jeff West, The Honourable April Corbett, The Honourable Mrs Arthur Corbett, Toni April.

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See also

Corbett family (United Kingdom)

English transgender writers

Entertainers from Liverpool

Models from Liverpool

People from Hay-on-Wye

Transgender case law in the United Kingdom

Transgender memoirists

Wives of younger sons of peers

References