Randall Gair Doherty | |
Birthname: | Randall Gair Doherty |
Birth Date: | 2 May 1937 |
Birth Place: | Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
Death Place: | Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England |
Alias: | Aleister Macalpine Charles Edward D'Arquires |
Family: | Aleister Crowley (father) |
Randall Gair Doherty (2 May 1937 – 20 November 2002) was an English politician, and son of occultist Aleisteir Crowley.[1] Throughout his life Doherty used several pseudonyms and titles including Aleister Macalpine and Count Charles Edward D'Arquires, and was called Aleister Atatürk by his father.[2]
Doherty was born on 2 May 1937 in Newcastle upon-Tyne to Aleister Crowley and Patricia Doherty, a native of Newlyn.[3] Doherty resided in Cornwall for the majority of his life and suffered from schizophrenia.[4]
He referred to himself as Count Charles Edward D'Arquires, Adjudicator of the Supreme Council of Great Britain.[4] Doherty said that he wanted to take over the British government by persuasion, and in 1976 requested a meeting with then Prime Minister Harold Wilson, which was refused.[4] [5]
Doherty died in a car accident in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, in 2002 at the age of 65.[6] [7]