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	Balfour's bubble \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Jabez Spencer Balfour, despite having a name that seemed to link him to several political and land-owning dynasties, actually came from nowhere.
		Balfour's empire - which now included construction companies and a bank - was revealed as running on nothing more than bluster.
		This McKie understands well, and his story of how Jabez Spencer Balfour went from solid burgher to City worthy to Portland prisoner (he served 14 years for fraud) is neatly stitched into the larger political and social narratives.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1172798,00.html (698 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| The tale of the half-billion-pound sting
		Jabez Spencer Balfour JP, MP was perhaps the greatest financial fraudster in British history, an embezzler on a Melmottian scale dwarfing the far lesser con-tricks of Trebitsch Lincoln, Horatio Bottomley, Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Archer combined.
		Balfour's mother was a Nonconformist temperance campaigner, his father a House of Commons messenger who claimed (untruthfully) that he had fought at the battle of Trafalgar.
		When Balfour died of a heart attack on the London-to-Fishguard express train six months later, he had a ticket in his pocket that was to take him to another mining job in Wales.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/03/07/bomck07.xml (807 words)

	"Jabez" by David McKie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jabez, as he was universally known, was a business man, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer.
		Jabez, the Liberator’s moving spirit, immediately took flight to Argentina, accompanied (scandalously) by a female ward half his age.
		The story of Jabez proves all too resoundingly that the epic self-destruction of public figures is not simply a contemporary phenomenon: the life of Jabez Spencer Balfour surpasses them all.
	www.hodgers.com /cduk/reviews/books/jabez.htm (167 words)

	New Statesman - Imperfect swindle
		McKie's account of the rise of Jabez - to use the name by which the anti-hero became notorious - is a triumph of municipal and political reporting.
		Jabez built his empire on grandiose construction schemes, inflated values and fraudulent accounts, but he cloaked it all behind a self-confident mask of hypocritical respectability.
		Jabez's end was better than his beginning, and his story is riveting.
	www.newstatesman.com /200403290042 (633 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - This Is Local London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The amazing story of disgraced MP Jabez Spencer Balfour, elected as the town's first mayor in 1883, is colourfully brought to life in David McKie's book, Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue.
		Jabez was a high-profile character in the borough which earned him the nick-name Mr Croydon.
		Jabez, as he was universally known, was a businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=465947 (249 words)

	BabakFakhamzadeh.com :: Reading :: David McKie - Jabez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jabez Balfour was the man behind an Enron-like scandal of the late 1800's.
		The only part of the book I really liked was the description of prison life at the turn of the previous century.
		What I found lacking was an insight into how Jabez got to the point where he started his fraudulent actions.
	www.babakfakhamzadeh.com /index.asp?item=2425 (130 words)

	Knightsbridge North Side: Parkside to Albert Gate Court: West of Albert Gate \| British History Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1898, six years after Balfour's spectacular downfall, the building was bought from the Liberator's administrators and was subsequently turned into a hotel.
		The extent of Jabez Balfour's role in the development of the 'Rosebery House' site is not known, but it seems from the start to have been very much the project of his close associate, the South London builder James William Hobbs.
		Neither Balfour nor Hobbs, however, were among the shareholders or directors of Hyde Park Court Ltd, the company incorporated in July 1887 to front the development, which was then described as 'a Residential Club or Buildings'.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=45903 (7414 words)

	Amazon.com: "Jabez Balfour": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The relief fund lasted for more than twenty years, raising over E150,000 for several thousand of the neediest cases.81 Jabez Balfour had alerted the public to the criminal potential of company groups,...
		Stavisky catches it and passes it to Bottomley, Bottomley to Jabez Balfour, Jabez Balfour to Charlie Peace, and Charlie Peace to Jonathan Wild, losing ground all the way.
		Jabez Balfour was all this, and acted accordingly, and it was only one of those " unforeseen hitches that brought the Liberator...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Jabez-Balfour (568 words)

	eBay.co.uk - balfour, Prints, Postcards, Antiquarian Books Pre-1940 items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		PORTRAITS COL BALFOUR, GEORGE CRITCHETT OCULIST, CAPT J
		PORTRAIT TORRERNS PLUNKETT BALFOUR PIG BOAR HUNT 1889
		BALFOUR PORTRAIT SECRETARY IRELAND FINE ART 1887 PRINT
	search.ebay.co.uk /balfour_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3 (286 words)

	Reminiscences of Rotherham by Alderman Geo. Gummer, J.P.
		Nor was it possible to fix the origin of the fire; this has remained a mystery, although many conjectures were made at the time.
		There are many who, although they will remember Jabez Balfour, have probably forgotten that he contested the Doncaster Parliamentary Division in 1888 at a by-election caused by the death of poor Walter Shirley.
		This proved his undoing, as it was well known that scores of voters accepted the odds and voted for the Hon.
	www.rotherhamweb.co.uk /h/gummer/294.htm (628 words)

	Jake the Barber.htm
		The only point of similarity to the subject matter of this paper is that the complaining witness in the recent federal prosecution, which terminated Factor's career, was a clergyman.
		In England, Factor acquired an enormous reputation as a financial swindler, ranking along with Hatry and Jabez Balfour in the amount of public interest his exploits aroused.
		His English victims were not little people but members of the aristocracy and leaders in the professions, and many of the letters found in his companies files bore the crest of nobility.
	www.chilit.org /MCCONNEL.HTM (8346 words)

	The Dotcom and Telco Bubbles: Australia
		It was also exacerbated by systemic weaknesses in agricultural lending, with the collapse of pastoralists and farmers during a lengthy drought (and amid slumping commodity prices attributable to new technologies and international competition at the height of pre-1914 globalisation) demonstrating that local and overseas financiers had lent unwisely.
		Those problems had overseas counterparts: the spectacular collapse of UK promoter Jabez Balfour (1843-1916) in 1892 for example involved £7 million - the equivalent of several billion dollars in today's values.
		For Balfour see Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue (New York: Atlantic 2004) by David McKie.
	www.caslon.com.au /boomprofile2.htm (1691 words)

	Brading Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A siding was laid down to the sea.
		Jabez Balfour was authorised to construct Sea Wall between St. Helens and Bembridge and also to reclaim the land within the Yar estuary.
		The Brading Community Partnership are currently working on a project to refurbish the waiting rooms into a Heritage Centre, railway museum, tourist information and a pop-in centre.
	www.brading.org /station.html (235 words)

	Old Cemetery Friends
		The first burial took place in 1861 of Thomas Garniss a member of the Croydon Board of Guardians.
		James Hobbs JP who, together with his partner in crime Jabez Balfour, was involved in a £7 million building society scandal is also buried there.
		All the victims of the famous Birdhurst Rise poisoning case in 1929 were laid to rest at Queen's Road Cemetery as was Thomas Geyle, Master of Croydon Workhouse.
	www.tboa.co.uk /news/2001/2001_11_29_01.htm (306 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - A Looker-On in London, by Mary H. Krout, 1899 - ...
		In cases coming within the provisions of extradition the same vigilance is apparent, and with it, a tirelessness that nothing can baffle or discourage.
		The search for Jabez Balfour, the absconding and embezzling head of the Liberator Company, is an illustration of this determined effort to bring the criminal to justice.
		There is little of the reprehensible abuse of rejecting jurors upon any and every trivial ground, which in the United States interrupts the progress of trials, prolonging them outrageously, for days and even weeks.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications2/lookeron-7.htm (2348 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However, precedents established in legal cases tended to lag behind developments in corporate governance structures, so that the courts tended to accept that directors and auditors alike were responsible for only a low level of care, and that even this could be mitigated by private agreement between the shareholders and their officers.
		It took a series of significant financial scandals (the ``Liberator'' frauds of Jabez Balfour and the ``City Equitable'' fraud of Gerald Bevan) first to enunciate a principle that auditors owed a duty of care to shareholders and second to question the propriety of limitation of auditor liability.
		Finally, however, it was the opinion on the part of key members of the accountancy profession that one of the ``badges'' of professional status was a willingness to accept responsibility for one's actions that provided a climate in which unlimited auditor liability was not only accepted but welcomed by auditors.
	files.eiasm.org /eaa/oldwebsite/eaa96/abstracts/271.htm (429 words)

	Prophets, Priests and Kings - Lord Loreburn
		No man can stagger to success under such a burden as Alpheus Cleophas.
		Jabez Balfour was due to his unctuous name.
		It was felt to embody all the negative pieties.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles28/prophets-priests-kings-22.shtml (2165 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - The Lighter Side of My Official Life - Chapter 12
		But the resourceful police officer to whom the case was entrusted outmanoeuvred them in a clever plot to thwart both our Government and their own.
		Judgment had been obtained against Balfour on civil process for debt, and the game was to seize him under a commitment order of the Provincial Court as soon as he was handed over on the extradition charge.
		Accordingly the prisoner was not given up until the daily train for Buenos Ayres had started.
	www.casebook.org /ripper_media/rps.lighterside.13.html (3436 words)

	hyundai image quest p910+ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I have arranged to invest something for classic toyota each of us in it.
		BONAR LAW--is, but it would be awful for us if he turned out to be a JABEZ BALFOUR in disguise.
		Still, nearly all investment is volvo performance for 850r sedan a daytona coupe gamble, and we can only hope for the best.
	www.zgryz.pl /bentley-s/hyundai-image-quest-p910.html (753 words)

	Magick Without Tears -- Chapter XXII
		By the time you have got good at this game—and a most amusing game it is—you may call yourself a very competent astrologer.
		Sometimes, even now, you may assign the figure of the Archbishop of York to Jabez Balfour or Catherine de Medici; or mix up Moody and Sankey with Brown and Kennedy; don't be discouraged; perhaps there may be something to be said for you after all!
		I believe, as I hope, that you will be surprised at the speed with which you acquire proficiency.
	www.hermetic.com /crowley/mwt/mwt_22.html (1217 words)

	Liberal Hari-Kari (1885) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The only measures of a remedial nature for Ireland, not yielded to crime, were those of Arthur Balfour, Gerald Balfour, and George Wyndham.
		On the 7th June, i885, late at night, I received a telegram from Parnell asking me to catch the morning mail to London.
		Yet in England Jabez Balfour, M.P., was brought back from South America by the law officers of the Liberal Party, to which he belonged, and sent to penal servitude for fraud.
	www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/THealy/healy16.htm (4309 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Private Passions - 18 July 2004
		Today Michael Berkeley talks to the journalist David McKie, who has been writing for The Guardian for nearly 40 years.
		He now writes the Smallweed and Elsewhere columns, and has recently published a book on the 19th-century Liberal MP and crook Jabez Balfour.
		His musical choices range from Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin to Bartok, Ravel and the Oscar Peterson Trio.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/privatepassions/pip/0jl3y (104 words)

	Levitra: Levitra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		From an artistic whatsomeever he strongly objected to the huge Levitra on which sugar-pap Contra-distinctions and slope Jabez Balfour assur'd so much of self-blow-up people's money.
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	arelevitraof.blogspot.com /2006/10/levitra_18.html (551 words)

	Seven Network: Skase & Qintex
		With the exception of Catherine Hoyte's 2003 dissertation An Australian Mirage (PDF) there has been no major study of Qintex or its architect.
		A perspective is provided by the career of Jabez Balfour, the UK entrepreneur who skipped the country in 1892 after a corporate collapse equivalent to $800 million and chronicled in Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue (New York: Atlantic 2004) by David McKie.
		For property adventures in Queensland see Samurai in the Surf: The Arrival of the Japanese on the Gold Coast in the 1980s (Canberra: Pandanus Books 2005) by Joe Hadju.
	www.ketupa.net /seven1.htm (1617 words)

	Reclamation of Brading Haven
		However, due to the carelessness of some of the workmen, the sea broke through again.
		Dickenson and Hutchinson were unable to raise the necessary money to repair the damage and the haven remained flooded until the 19th century when Jabez Balfour and the Liberator Company built the present, much longer embankment, which has successfully kept out the sea from Brading pastures.
		Not everyone was supportive of the reclamation works and like in the Fens and at Hatfield Chase, many of the people who relied on the haven for their livelihood were unhappy about the transformation of the marshes and estuary into pastures.
	www.btinternet.com /~rob.martin1/bem/reclaim.htm (4649 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Sir Robert Anderson and Lady Agnes Anderson - Chapters 3 & 4
		Amongst those who supported him so loyally and effectively at Scotland Yard, Sir Melville Macnaghten, Superintendent Frederick Williamson and Chief-Inspector William Melville have already been mentioned.
		Others whose names frequently appear in the records of causes celdbres were Inspector (later Sir Patrick) Quinn, who went after Pigott the forger when the latter fled to Spain, and Chief Inspector Frank Froest, who brought Jabez Balfour back from the Argentine and who was concerned also in the Adolph Beck case.
		As a wretched item in the Commonwealth I feel that my person and goods are no longer so safe as they were."
	www.casebook.org /ripper_media/rps.apmoore.2.html?printer=true (11291 words)

	Magick Without Tears (B) - Aleister Crowley
		Sometimes, even now, you may assign the figure of the Archbishop of York
		to Jabez Balfour or Catherine de Medici; or mix up Moody and Sankey with
		Brown and Kennedy; don't be discouraged; perhaps there may be something
	hecate.com.ar /mwt/mwt-b.html (19616 words)

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