Frederick Alfred John Emery-Wallis (11 May 1927 – March 2017) was a British

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county councillor for

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from 1973 to 2001,

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for 1968–69, Leader of

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1976–1993 and 1997–99, Chairman of the Council 1999–2001, and Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Hampshire."Emery-Wallis, Frederick Alfred John", Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 201
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/ref> He was a considerable champion of the county's heritage, and in particular of the

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. Emery-Wallis suffered a "spectacular fall from grace" in 2001 after being convicted and jailed for 9 months for two counts of

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against two boys dating back to the 1960s and 1970s. He was released after 4½ months. As a consequence, he was stripped of his

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to which he had been appointed in the

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, and of his Deputy Lieutenancy. Further allegations of

against a girl were dropped in 2008 due to lack of evidence. He died after suffering a stroke in March 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Emery-Wallis, Freddie 1927 births 2017 deaths English people convicted of child sexual abuse Lord Mayors of Portsmouth People stripped of a British Commonwealth honour Conservative Party (UK) councillors British politicians convicted of crimes Members of Hampshire County Council Leaders of local authorities of England