Vigo Auguste Demant

Vigo Auguste Demant (8 November 1893 – 3 March 1983), known V. A. Demant, was an Anglican priest, theologian and social commentator. He was one of the 14 committee members who served on the Wolfenden report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

Demant was born on 8 November 1893. He was educated in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, and in Tournan, France. He studied engineering at Armstrong College, Durham University. He then studied anthropology at Manchester College, Oxford and Exeter College, Oxford.

Demant had originally intended to become a Unitarian minister, but became attracted to Catholicism while studying at the University of Oxford. He trained for Holy Orders at Ely Theological College, an Anglo-Catholic theological college in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Demant was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1919 and as a priest in 1920. He served two curacies: one at St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford and the second at St. Nicholas' Church, Plumstead, London. From 1929 to 1933, he was an assistant priest at St Silas Church, Kentish Town.

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