35-563: March On may refer to: Songs [ edit ] "March On!", song of the British Blue Shirts 1931, lyrics by Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson , music from the 1929 film High Treason March On! (You Fighting Sycamores) , official school fight song of Indiana State University. 1939 "March On", song by Good Charlotte from their 2007 album Good Morning Revival "March On", song by Safura from It's My War " March On, Bahamaland ",
70-399: A Ten Minute Rule Bill to ban the wearing of political uniforms - aimed at Oswald Mosley 's Black Shirts ( British Union of Fascists ). The Bill did not become law, but a similar bill sponsored by the government did become law in 1936. In 1935 he was a founding member of Focus , a cross-party group opposed to the prevailing policy of appeasement of German and Italian aggression. In 1936 he
105-883: A camp on Roughton Heath near his home in Cromer in north Norfolk , after Einstein had received death threats while living in Belgium. A TV drama-documentary released worldwide by Netflix on 17 February 2024 included scenes recreating the Roughton Camp with actor Andrew Havill in the role of Oliver Locker-Lampson. He later worked to help other high-profile victims of fascism, including Haile Selassie and Sigmund Freud , as well as numerous ordinary Jewish people, whom he personally sponsored in order they might escape Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria. Some have called his efforts "exceptional in how he saved Jews from Germany." In 1934 he introduced
140-440: A department of the university leasing the building from the club for a nominal annual fee. The CUADC puts on around 20 shows every year. These cover a huge range of subject matter and playwrights, from comic to tragic, from Chaucer to Stoppard via Shakespeare and Beckett to name just a few. Although many are performed at the 228-seater ADC Theatre , where the club is the resident performing company, recent venues have also included
175-498: A gold cigarette case as a "token of his esteem". Locker-Lampson returned the gift with some embarrassment. From 1933 onwards, Locker-Lampson redirected his political ire against fascism both in Britain and in continental Europe. In July 1933 he introduced a Private member's bill to extend British citizenship to Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution, though it failed to become law. In September, he provided Albert Einstein with refuge at
210-515: A member of the committee the previous year and is elected by that committee, all other roles are elected by club members at the AGM, held in Lent Term. The committee is in charge of show selection and support, as well as organisation of one-off events such as the annual garden party , annual dinner, and freshers' squash. There is also a senior treasurer, who, by university statutes, must be a senior member of
245-502: A visit to London. This was organised by the MI6 spy F. W. Winterbotham who was investigating the Nazis at the time, posing as an admirer who could help the Nazis make links with prominent figures in Britain. Locker-Lampson's Blue Shirts apparently "delighted Rosenberg, and when he heard that their objective was to counter Communist propaganda he was even more enthusiastic", and Rosenberg later sent him
280-672: Is buried in Worth churchyard near Crawley, Sussex. Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Founded in 1855, the Amateur Dramatic Club (or ADC) is the oldest university dramatic society in England – and the largest dramatic society in Cambridge . The club stages a diverse range of productions every term, many of them at the fully equipped ADC Theatre in Park Street, where they are
315-434: Is eligible for ordinary membership. From time to time special membership may be conferred onto people who do not otherwise qualify for ordinary membership. It is a requirement that anybody participating in a show put on by the club must have some class of membership status for insurance reasons. The club is run on behalf of its members by a committee of fourteen students of the university. The President usually must have been
350-510: The Daily Express , but was outmanoeuvred by the future Lord Beaverbrook . However, his main political preoccupation before 1914 was harrying Asquith 's Liberal government over the selling of honours and the Marconi scandal . He also opposed Irish Home Rule , and raised funds for Edward Carson 's Pro-Unionist Ulster Volunteer Force . In December 1914 Locker-Lampson received a commission in
385-700: The 1918 general election , constituencies were redrawn and the Ramsey Division was abolished. A new all Huntingdonshire seat was created, and Locker-Lampson stood for this instead, and was elected. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain from 1919 to 1921, and accompanied Chamberlain to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. In the 1922 election he moved to Birmingham Handsworth and
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#1732858786309420-529: The Amateur Dramatic Club . After Cambridge he studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in 1907 but never practised. Instead he worked as a journalist for several years and was also a founding director of a Norwich -based motorcar vendor, Duff, Morgan and Vermont. As an MP, he did not wish his name to appear in the company name, so he used the home state of his maternal grandfather, Vermont. In 1911 he
455-907: The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, the ACEF was withdrawn from Russia. In 1918 selected personnel and armoured cars transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and served as 'Duncars' within Dunsterforce in Persia and Turkey , though without Commander Locker-Lampson, who in 1918 became the Ministry of Information 's Russian Representative. Partly because of his experiences in Russia, Locker-Lampson became fiercely anti- Communist and suspicious of covert Bolshevik influence in Britain's economy, society and politics. In
490-692: The Caucasus . Locker-Lampson became somewhat entangled in Russian politics at this time. He said later that he had been asked to participate in the 1916 assassination of Rasputin , and that he had a secret plan to get Tsar Nicholas II out of Russia after his abdication in March 1917. It is also alleged that in September 1917 he was involved in Kornilov's attempted coup against the provisional government of Kerensky . After
525-584: The Corpus Christi Playroom , The Octagon at St Chad's, King's College Lawn and the Round Church . Constitutionally, the club also has an obligation to spread interest in the theory and practice of theatre, in all its aspects, by every possible means amongst those qualified to be members of the Club; to encourage the active involvement of the same regardless of previous experience; and to maintain interest in
560-715: The Home Guard and continued to support Winston Churchill vociferously from the backbenches . He retired from politics at the 1945 General Election. The Locker-Lampson family's principal home was Rowfant in West Sussex. Following his mother's death in 1915 Oliver's older brother Godfrey inherited Rowfant while Oliver inherited the family's summer home, Newhaven Court in Cromer. He was married twice. His first wife, Bianca Jacqueline Paget, whom he married in 1923, died in 1929. He married his second wife, Barbara Goodall, in 1935. They had two sons, Jonathan and Stephen. Oliver Locker-Lampson
595-704: The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. This was largely on the basis of an understanding with the First Lord of the Admiralty , Winston Churchill , that he would personally fund the establishment of an armoured car squadron for the Royal Naval Air Service's Armoured Car Division . After training at Whale Island, Hampshire and in north Norfolk near his family home, Newhaven Court, Cromer , Locker-Lampson's No. 15 Squadron
630-504: The "Sentinels of Empire", also known as the Blue Shirts, a quasi-paramilitary organisation "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds!" Their motto was his family motto "Fear God! Fear Naught!" Their anthem, "March On", with words written by Locker-Lampson, music originally from the film High Treason , was sold as sheet music and as a 78-rpm record. A phonograph record of the anthem
665-512: The 1920s he organised several mass rallies under the banner 'Rout the Reds', many of which were stewarded by members of Rotha Lintorn-Orman 's British Fascisti . He also expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler in the Daily Mirror , touting the future leader of Nazi Germany as "a legendary hero" and "the most masterly expounder and contriver in the length and breadth of the Reich". In 1931, he founded
700-656: The Armoured Car Expeditionary Force (ACEF), also known as the Russian Armoured Car Division, with Locker-Lampson in command in order to show support for Britain's Russian ally. Sea ice prevented the Division from reaching Archangel and men and armoured cars were landed at the small town of Alexandrovsk . The ACEF operated with the Russian Army in several areas, including Galicia , Romania , and
735-510: The Hoop Hotel stage was destroyed in a fire. Support flooded in, including messages of goodwill from the King, and a mere 18 months later a new building was opened by the club. The ADC Theatre , now the oldest university playhouse in the country, was reborn. The club continued to run the theatre until it ran into financial difficulties in 1974 when the university took over the running of the theatre, as
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#1732858786309770-625: The Ramsey Division in Huntingdonshire , defeating the Liberal incumbent. He stood as a Conservative Unionist on a Tariff Reform ticket. He was re-elected in the December 1910 general election . With the outbreak of the First World War , there were no elections held until 1918, and he continued as an MP throughout this period although absent on active service abroad for much of 1915 to 1918. Before
805-455: The club's members allowed the club to pay for the renovation of their cramped and bare rooms, and in 1860 the new stage at the Hoop Hotel, roughly on the site of the current building, was opened. Though the university's approval was initially begrudging, attitudes towards the club changed over the course of the next 40 years, and by the beginning of the 20th century the club was a nationally renowned and respected group. Tragedy struck in 1933 when
840-652: The name Locker-Lampson as a condition of his father-in-law's will.) His ancestors included Captain William Locker , Edward Hawke Locker , Benjamin Stillingfleet and Jonathan Boucher . Locker-Lampson was educated at Cheam School , Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained an Honours Tripos Degree in History and Modern Languages. While at Cambridge, he was co-editor of Granta with Edwin Montagu and President of
875-744: The national anthem of the Bahamas Other [ edit ] March On (organization) , 501(c)(4) organization in the United States that grew out of the 2017 Women's March March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World , the 2009 winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
910-423: The project was reported to have been ‘unfavourable’, but this did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of those involved. The club's first presentation was a series of short one act plays of varying quality, of which the club's first minute book reports that ‘the receipts were scanty, but a start was effected’. Over the course of the next five years, the society grew slowly but steadily. A contribution of £5 from each of
945-545: The resident company. They also regularly stage shows at other Cambridge venues, annually at the Edinburgh Fringe and occasionally on tour abroad. The Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club was officially founded during the Easter Vacation of 1855 by F.C. Burnand and a group of his friends, who had acquired back rooms in the Hoop Hotel on Jesus Lane during the course of the previous year. The university's response to
980-574: The running of the ADC Theatre. To this end, the club puts on a programme of professional and student-run workshops for actors, directors and technicians as well as a series of late-night experimental pieces known as One Night Stands. Anybody aged 17 or over, studying for a qualification at the University of Cambridge , or who is engaged in full-time study at any other educational institution within Cambridge
1015-555: The title March On . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March_On&oldid=1156880799 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oliver Locker-Lampson Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson , CMG , DSO (25 September 1880 – 8 October 1954)
1050-440: Was a British politician and naval reserve officer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ramsey , Huntingdonshire and Birmingham Handsworth from 1910 to 1945 as a Conservative . He was the brother of Godfrey Locker-Lampson MP and cousin of the diplomat Miles Lampson . He was the younger son of the poet Frederick Locker , and his second wife, Hannah Jane Lampson, daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson Bt. (Frederick Locker took
1085-577: Was elected there. He held Birmingham Handsworth from 1922 until the 1945 general election , when he was de-selected by the constituency party. Locker-Lampson's early political career was taken up with a number of causes. He was appointed by the Conservative and Unionist Party to raise money for the Unionist Working Men's Candidates Fund. He was also involved in a secret plan by Arthur Steel-Maitland and Conservative Central Office to gain control of
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1120-508: Was instrumental in the successful prosecution of the British fascist Arnold Leese for his publication of anti-Semitic literature . Throughout the 1930s he was one of the few Conservative MPs to continue to support Winston Churchill during his "wilderness years" of political isolation. Age and ill-health prevented him from taking a very active part in the Second World War, though he joined
1155-506: Was sent to Mussolini , along with silver and blue-enamelled cufflinks and badge, as a gift from the Blue Shirts. Although Locker-Lampson claimed that the organisation had 100,000 members, the Blue Shirts were short-lived and appeared to make little impact. Nevertheless, they did attract the praise of the Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg , who in 1931 had lunch with Locker-Lampson at the Savoy during
1190-564: Was sent to France, then operated in the unoccupied portion of Belgium on attachment to the Belgian Army during much of 1915. By the end of 1915, trench warfare meant there was no scope for armoured cars on the Western Front and most of the RNAS's armoured car squadrons were disbanded by the Admiralty. However, three squadrons of RNAS armoured cars were assembled and sent by ship to Archangel as
1225-509: Was the victim of a practical joke by an old school friend, Horace de Vere Cole . Cole challenged Locker-Lampson to a footrace on a London street, and allowed him to pull ahead. Then he shouted "Stop thief! He's got my watch!" - having previously slipped his gold watch into Locker-Lampson's pocket. Locker-Lampson was elected to the House of Commons at the January 1910 general election as the member for
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