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| birth_name = Austin Richard William Low
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|5|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[London, United Kingdom]]
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[[Brigadier]] '''Toby Austin Richard William Low, 1st Baron Aldington, Baron Low''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCMG|CBE|DSO|TD|PC|DL}} (25 May 1914 – 7 December 2000), known as '''Austin Richard William Low''' until he added "Toby" as a forename by [[deed poll]] on 10 July 1957,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=41128 |page=4265 |date=16 July 1957 }}</ref> was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician and businessman. He was however best known for his role in [[Operation Keelhaul]], the forced repatriation of Russian, Ukrainian and other prisoners of war who'd collaborated with the
==Life==
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Nigel Watts, who was in a business dispute with [[Sun Alliance (company)|Sun Alliance]], one of Lord Aldington's former companies, used this information to further his own cause, printing 10,000 leaflets about Aldington's role in the matter and circulating them to politicians and other figures.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/09/guardianobituaries.obituaries|work=The Guardian|location=London|title=Lord Aldington|date=9 December 2000|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> Tolstoy avoided paying the damages by declaring himself bankrupt,<ref name="auto"/> although shortly after Aldington's death he paid £57,000 in costs to Aldington's estate.<ref>{{cite news|last=Alleyne|first=Richard|title=Tolstoy pays £57,000 to Aldington's estate|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1377581/Tolstoy-pays-57000-to-Aldingtons-estate.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=9 December 2000}}</ref>
In July 1995, the [[European Court of Human Rights]] decided unanimously that the British Government had violated Tolstoy's rights in respect of Article 10 of the Convention on Human Rights, describing the damages as "excessive and not [[necessary in a democratic society]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMs6T2csv-AC&q=Lord+Aldington+e+European+Court+of+Human+Rights.&pg=PA335|title=Modern Tort Law 6/e|isbn=9781843145158|last1=Harpwood|first1=V. H.|date=3 October 2005|publisher=Cavendish }}</ref>
This decision referred only to the amount of the damages awarded against him and did not overturn the judgement in the libel action. ''The Times'' commented:
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