Editing Henry Labouchère (section)

{{short description|British politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner}}
{{For|his uncle|Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
 | honorific_prefix = 
 | name             = Henry Labouchère
 | honorific_suffix = 
 | image            = Henry Labouchère.jpg
 | alt              = Headshot of middle-aged white man with greying beard and moustache
 | caption          = 
 | constituency_MP1 = [[Middlesex (UK Parliament constituency)|Middlesex]]
 | term_start1      = 15 April 1867
 | term_end1        = 21 November 1868
 | predecessor1     = [[Robert Culling Hanbury]]
 | successor1       = [[Lord George Hamilton|George Hamilton]]
 | constituency_MP2 = [[Northampton (UK Parliament constituency)|Northampton]]
 | term_start2      = 27 April 1880
 | term_end2        = 12 January 1906
 | successor2       = [[Herbert Paul]]
 | party            = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
 | birth_date       = 9 November 1831
 | birth_place      = London, England
 | death_date       = {{death date and age|df=y|1912|1|15|1831|11|9}}
 | death_place      = [[Florence]]
 | known_for        = [[Labouchere Amendment]] criminalising male homosexual activity
 | spouse           = {{marriage|[[Henrietta Hodson]]|1887}}
 | education        = [[Eton College]]
 | alma_mater       = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]
 | occupation       = writer, publisher and theatre owner
}}

'''Henry Du Pré Labouchère''' (9 November 1831 – 15 January 1912) was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian era]]s. He is now most remembered for the [[Labouchere Amendment|Labouchère Amendment]], which for the first time criminalised all male homosexual activity in the United Kingdom.

Labouchère, who came from a wealthy [[Huguenots|Huguenot]] banking family, was a junior member of the British diplomatic service before briefly serving in Parliament in 1865–68. He lived with the actress [[Henrietta Hodson]] from 1868, and they married in 1887. He made a name for himself as a journalist and theatre producer, first buying a stake in [[The Daily News (UK)|''The Daily News'']] and in 1876 founding the magazine [[Truth (British periodical)|''Truth'']], which he bankrolled during an extensive series of libel suits. 

In 1880, he returned to Parliament as the [[Liberal party (UK)|Liberal]] member for Northampton, and became a key figure in the radical [[Irish Home Rule movement|Home Rule]] wing of the party. He was a controversial figure, and opposition from [[Queen Victoria]] as well as from senior Liberals ensured that he was never given a ministerial position. He became increasingly unpopular because of his opposition to the [[Second Boer War]], and resigned from politics in 1906, when he left Britain and retired to Italy.