Bexhill-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish in the Rother District in the county of East Sussex in South East England. It is located along the Sussex Coast and between the towns of Hastings and Eastbourne.
Eileen Vartan Barker is a professor in sociology,an emeritus member of the London School of Economics (LSE),and a consultant to that institution's Centre for the Study of Human Rights. She is the chairperson and founder of the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (INFORM) and has written studies about cults and new religious movements.
Antony Harold Newton,Baron Newton of Braintree,OBE,PC,DL was a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet member. He was the member of Parliament for Braintree from 1974 to 1997,and was later a member of the House of Lords.
Earl De La Warr is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1761 for John West,7th Baron De La Warr. The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount Cantelupe (1761) in the Peerage of Great Britain,Baron De La Warr (1572) in the Peerage of England,and Baron Buckhurst,of Buckhurst in the County of Sussex (1864) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The barony De La Warr is of the second creation;however,it bears the precedence of the first creation,1299,and has done so since shortly after the death of William West,1st Baron De La Warr. The family seat is Buckhurst Park,near Withyham,Sussex.
Charles Frederick Wardle is a retired British businessman and politician who was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle from 1983 until 2001. In April 2001 for the last four weeks of his parliamentary career he sat without the Conservative whip because he and a group of his Conservative constituency workers would not endorse his successor,Greg Barker,until questions were answered about Barker's activities in Russia and about money he had obtained offshore. Later the Russian oligarch,whose company employed Barker,was sanctioned in the United States of America and in the United Kingdom.
Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville,9th Earl De La Warr,,styled Lord Buckhurst until 1915,was a British politician. He was the first hereditary peer to join the Labour Party and became a government minister at the age of 23.
The anti-cult movement,abbreviated ACM and also known as the countercult movement,consists of various governmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals that seek to raise awareness of religious groups that they consider to be "cults",uncover coercive practices used to attract and retain members,and help those who have become involved with harmful cult practices.
Other Archer Windsor,6th Earl of Plymouth was an English nobleman,the eldest and only surviving son of the 5th Earl of Plymouth. He was the sixth Earl of Plymouth of the 1682 creation.
Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive,2nd Earl of Plymouth,,was an English nobleman and Conservative Party politician.
John Rankin "Tim" Rathbone was a British businessman and Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the seat of Lewes between 1974 and 1997.
Sir John Gordon Hannam is a British Conservative politician. He was the last Conservative MP for Exeter to date,from 1970 until his retirement in 1997.
William James Robert Peel,3rd Earl Peel,,styled Viscount Clanfield until 1969,is a British hereditary peer who was a Conservative peer from 15 May 1973 until October 2006 when,on his appointment as Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household,he became a crossbench (non-partisan) member of the House of Lords.
Elizabeth Sackville-West,Countess De La Warr and 1st Baroness Buckhurst,was a British peeress.
FECRIS –(in French)European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism,a French non-profit association and anti-cult organization,serves as an umbrella organization for groups which investigate the activities of groups considered cults in Europe.
Adrian John Charles Hope,4th Marquess of Linlithgow,styled Viscount Aithrie until 1952 and Earl of Hopetoun between 1952 and 1987,is a British noble. His family seat is Hopetoun House,near Edinburgh,Scotland. He was educated at Eton College.
The Family Survival Trust (FST) is a charity registered in the United Kingdom,established in order to support and offer counselling for members of abusive cults,religions,and similar organizations,and their families members.
INFORM (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) is an independent registered charity located in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College,London;from 1988-2018 it was based at the London School of Economics. It was founded by the sociologist of religion,Eileen Barker,with start-up funding from the British Home Office and Britain's mainstream churches. Its stated aims are to "prevent harm based on misinformation about minority religions and sects by bringing the insights and methods of academic research into the public domain" and to provide "information about minority religions and sects which is as accurate,up-to-date and as evidence-based as possible."
Buckhurst Park is an English country house and landscaped park in Withyham,East Sussex. It is the seat of William Sackville,11th Earl De La Warr.
Charles William Harley Hay,16th Earl of Kinnoull,styled Viscount Dupplin until 2013,is a Scottish hereditary peer and Crossbench member of the House of Lords,who serves as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers.
Cultists Anonymous (CA) was a British anti-cult organization made up of ex-cultists from Family,Action,Information,and Rescue (FAIR),Britain's largest anti-cult organization. CA formed in 1985 but rejoined FAIR in 1991. CA's leaders generally remained anonymous to avoid intimidation from new religious movements (NRMs). However,George D. Chryssides,a British religious studies scholar,believes that Lord John Francis Rodney,9th Baron Rodney (Lord Rodney) was the leader of the group.
