The life of “Lord” Timothy Dexter, “King of Chester”, “Best in the East”, and “Greatest philosopher of the western world”, deserves to be remembered.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.