Talk:Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington

Dubious claims

There are a lot of dodgy claims on this article. For instance, "But rejected by the party, saddled with debts and, unable to find a seat, he went to the cabinet took out a gun and shot himself." Victor Montagu, the peer in question, lived till 88.

Atchom (talk) 23:50, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

I agree, she had no qualifications and there is no substance to many of the claims here. Leveni (talk) 23:24, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

A propos of what?

Trumpington did not tolerate homosexual men at parties, but she was already interested in Republican politics.

This sentence does not relate to anything before it. Might be vandalism, but the article is somewhat unencyclopedic in parts. Valetude (talk) 18:02, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. I first tagged it 'citation needed' and have now removed it. Nedrutland (talk) 09:32, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Waffle and fluff

• The QM once came to tea
• On one occasion she went into [Turing's] office to hand over a document while he was sitting reading.

Well, we're all obviously agog at such important, earth-shattering facts. NOT. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 00:51, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Her Cryptographic Days

She merely transcribed German phrases for further processing, but did not decode them. Some clarification should be added to avoid conveying the false assumption that she was particularly gifted in this sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.92.8.189 (talk) 17:44, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

The Cambridge Rapist / MacFisheries

I have just removed the following from the article: "She gained public notoriety for personally tackling the 'Cambridge Rapist' in her own home, for whom the police had been searching for years without success; a burglar turned out to be the wanted felon masquerading as a door-to-door salesman calling himself MacFisheries." No one has come forward with sources and, according to the Daily Mail, based on Trumpington's memoirs, the Cambridge Rapist just delivered orders of fish and veg to her. She was apparently the magistrate to whom he was produced after his arrest and, as she knew him, she recused. Here's the Daily Mail's account It's unlikely that the Mail is going to be inaccurate when summarising memoirs.  Roger Davies ^talk 17:52, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

A few more sources, all also casting doubt on the removed material: (i) Spectator's account, (ii) BBC's Obituary, in the 'Politics' section, (iii) The Times review of the memoir makes a passing reference to her fishmonger.  Roger Davies ^talk 18:04, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

@Roger Davies: You are correct. I have her memoirs and the Daily Mail's summary is actually accurate on this issue. (Page 179) Him being her delivery man is a bit trivial but since she was sitting magistrate, the association could be included back in without the tackling aspect. --Meanderingbartender (talk) 11:47, 17 June 2021 (UTC)