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Grattan Puxon is a British fighter for Roma rights and a journalist by profession. After refusing conscription into the army from his native England, he fled to Ireland where he met the Irish Travellers and joined their nomadic way of life.
Grattan puxon biography of albert
He returned to England in 1966 and the same year was one of the founders of the British Romany Council in Kent, where he was the first secretary. Under Puxon’s leadership, the Council launched a campaign of passive resistance against the violent evictions of Roma caravans from public plots, which attracted great media interest.
The campaign put pressure to enact the Caravan Sites Act (1968), which obliged municipal councils in England to provide caravan sites for the Roma. Throughout his career, Puxon fought against evictions in Roma settlements, offered support and guidance to those affected by them.
In addition, he helped asylum seekers from the Roma community.
Puxon was involved in international movements that contributed to the rig