Dorothy Clutterbuck ( 19 January 1880 – 12 January 1951 ), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939.

After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claimed to have been initiated in September 1939.

Ronald Hutton and Leo Ruickbie have concluded that Clutterbuck is unlikely to have been involved in Gardner's activities, in particular because of her apparent commitment to Christianity.

Faced with challenges from sceptics, Valiente attempted, with some success, to provide evidence for Gardner's claims concerning his initiation, notably by identifying the woman Gardner called ' Old Dorothy ' as Dorothy Clutterbuck in 1980, the woman who was supposed to have performed Gardner's initiation, in an essay published in The Witches ' Way by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

This group claimed to have known Gardner from a past life, and in September 1939, revealed to him that they were members of a Witches ' coven, and then initiated him into Wicca in a ritual which took place in one of the homes owned by Dorothy Clutterbuck.

Some writers, such as Jeffrey Russell, suggested that Clutterbuck had been invented by Gardner, but Valiente obtained her birth, marriage and death certificates and published a basic outline of her life in 1982.

It continues to be debated whether Gardner's claims that Clutterbuck was involved in pagan witchcraft were true, or whether Gardner used the name of a respectable local worthy as a private joke and in order to distract attention from his true magical partner, Edith Woodford-Grimes.

One night in September 1939 they took him to a large house owned by " Old Dorothy " Clutterbuck, a wealthy local woman, where he was made to strip naked and taken through an initiation ceremony.

Doreen Valiente, one of Gardner's priestesses, later identified the woman who initiated Gardner as Dorothy Clutterbuck, referenced in A Witches ' Bible by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

* Terrorism and guerrilla warfare: forecasts and remedies by Richard L. Clutterbuck, Routledge: New York, USA.

The Association's first Director General was Vice-Admiral David Clutterbuck who assumed this position in 1969.

Clutterbuck was a practising Anglican Christian, and never publicly identified herself as a witch.

Clutterbuck was born in British India, and was the daughter of Thomas St. Quentin Clutterbuck, a British army officer.

Clutterbuck had reverted to her maiden name by the time of her death.

Gardner's statements were interpreted by his pupil Doreen Valiente as implying that Clutterbuck had personally initiated him into the coven, but later authors such as Philip Heselton and Eleanor Bone claim that his initiator was in fact Edith Woodford-Grimes.

Conversely, Philip Heselton has concluded that Clutterbuck definitely was involved in occult activities, and that her practice of Christianity was social and conventional in nature.

Clutterbuck left three volumes of diaries, which are actually more similar to commonplace books, filled with daily poems and illustrations and intended to be read by visitors to her home.

They therefore took out a suit of habeas corpus and two doctors, George Birkbeck and Henry Clutterbuck examined Matthews, declaring him sane.

Instead of taking up residence, they let the house to the Clutterbuck family, who loved the house so much that when they left in 1909 they had a near replica built in Bedfordshire at Putteridge Bury.

The director fires Bakshi immediately and calls the studio head, General Fred Clutterbuck ( J. Edward McKinley ), about the mishap.

Clutterbuck writes down Bakshi's name in order to blacklist him, but he inadvertently writes Bakshi's name on the guest list of his upcoming dinner party.

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