English journalist and spy Jeremy Wolfenden was BOTD in 1934. Born in Uppingham, he was the eldest son of prominent educationalist John Wolfenden. He won a scholarship to Eton College, where he was known as “the cleverest boy in England”, and became a star student at Oxford University. In 1954, his father was appointed chairman of a government committee tasked with considering law reform on homosexuality and prostitution. The committee published their report in 1960, recommending that consenting gay sex between adults be decriminalised. Wolfenden Sr. was apparently aware of and concerned by Jeremy’s homosexuality, and was one of the few members of the committee to oppose law reform. After graduating, Jeremy became a news editor at The Times of London in 1959, moving to Paris the following year to become the newspaper’s French correspondent. In 1961, he was recruited by the British secret service, ahead of his moving to Moscow to become the Daily Telegraph‘s foreign correspondent. He embraced the relative freedoms of the Soviet Union, befriending Communist defector and celebrity homosexual Guy Burgess and indulging in alcohol and gay sex. The KGB photographed Wolfenden having sex with another man, and used the photos in an attempt to recruit him as a spy. By 1964, he was being blackmailed by both the KGB and British secret service. Desperate to escape, he swapped jobs with the Telegraph’s Washington, D.C. correspondent and fled to the United States with his future wife Martina Browne. He died in 1965, apparently after sustaining a head injury during an alcoholic blackout. He was 31. He was profiled in Sebastian Faulks’ 1996 biographical study The Fatal Englishman, and portrayed by Sean Biggerstaff in Julian Mitchell‘s 2007 TV film Consenting Adults.