Soper, The Rev. Donald Oliver Soper, Baron

▪ 1999

      British Methodist minister who preached in the open air every week for decades at Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park and at Tower Hill. An articulate, quick-witted orator, Soper made good use of his skills, and his denunciation of such wide-ranging enemies as alcohol, gambling, poverty, war, apartheid, blood sports, and capitalism, combined with his passionate support for such controversial issues as homosexual rights and the ordination of women, earned him throngs of listeners and, in 1965, a life peerage (b. Jan. 31, 1903, London, Eng.—d. Dec. 22, 1998, London).

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