Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
(1862 - 1932) U.K.
Historian and academic
Born in London, the son of a porrtait-panter, Dickinson spent most of his life at King's college, Cambridge, first as a student, then as a fellow. He was a pacifist during World War I, and he was later instrumental in the conception of the League of Nations. Some of his writings - in particular his 1896 masterpiece The Greek Way of Life - dealt openly with love between people of the same sex, which lead gay British novelist E. M. Forster to write "all his deepest emotions were towards men."
Dickinson fell deeply in love with a series of men, beginning with the Bloomsbury art critic Roger Fry, though it is unlikely that this or any of his affairs were fully consummated. Dickinson was a popular and very influential scholar and teacher, annd the male camaraderie of his Cambridge college provided a congenial environment for close contacts and warm friendships with young men.
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