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  John Stonehouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stonehouse is perhaps most famous for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974.
Stonehouse was first elected as Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Wednesbury in a 1957 by-election, having contested Twickenham in 1950 and Burton in 1951.
Stonehouse maintained the pretence of normality until his pretended suicide on November 20 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a Miami beach.
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 Stonehouse: Manors and other estates | British History Online
Seven hides at Stonehouse that were held in 1066 by Tovi belonged in 1086 to William of Eu, (fn.
John Giffard was said to have often stayed at Stonehouse in the mid 13th century.
John of Rodborough held 1½ yardland from Stonehouse manor in 1299.
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 Stonehouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stonehouse, Gloucestershire is a town near Stroud in Gloucestershire
Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire is a village near Larkhall
John Stonehouse, a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stonehouse   (110 words)

  
 The STONEHOUSE AND RELATED FAMILIES - Person Page 785
     John Stonehouse was born in 1686 at Lythe, North Yorkshire, England.
He was the son of John Stonehouse and Ann Woodas.
She married John Stonehouse on 29 June 1680 at Lythe, North Yorkshire, England.
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 Stiles Generation IV
Nathan Stonehouse was born on 5 December 1868.
John Arthur Stiles was born on 19 March 1893 in New Brunswick.
John Mansfield Stiles was born on 20 December 1906 in Coatesville, Kent, New Brunswick.
www.pansy-paws.com /genealogy/stiles04.htm   (1812 words)

  
 John Stonehouse | Topic Definition | Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse (1926 - 1988) was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson.
Stonehouse is notable for faking his own death.
He served as Postmaster General under Wilson, but after the defeat in the general election of 1970, he was not appointed to the Shadow Cabinet.
www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=John_Stonehouse   (363 words)

  
 parkinson - pafg151 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
John STEPHENSON [Parents] was born on 14 Mar 1752 in Heysham, Lancashire, England.
John STEPHENSON [Parents] was born on 13 Oct 1725 in Heysham, Lancashire, England.
John STONEHOUSE was born in 1724 in England.
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 Telegraph | News
John Stonehouse, the Labour MP who faked his death to escape prosecution following the collapse of his business empire, adopted the identity of a dead constituent in order to enjoy the feeling of being an honest man, according to a previously secret psychiatric report.
It suggested that Stonehouse, who lost his ministerial job in 1970, had begun to nurture his alternative persona as a psychological safety valve early in 1974, months before he left his clothes abandoned on the sand.
In June 1974, Mr Stonehouse suffered a degree of depression which led to the deterioration in his judgment and some irresponsibility, though he was at all times intellectually aware of his actions.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/29/nnat229.xml   (575 words)

  
 The STONEHOUSE AND RELATED FAMILIES - Person Page 35
Everett John Stonehouse died on 19 January 1964 at Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, at age 84.
She was the daughter of John L Oxley and Charlotte Schurman.
John Oxley died on 15 December 1867 at Mount Pleasant, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, at age 0.
www.stonehouse.ca /tree2/p35.htm   (1897 words)

  
 LeonardRossiter.com: Reggie Online - Real Incidents
Stonehouse, handsome, fortyish and with a droll sense of humor is a known womaniser with a taste for young Labour Party female workers.
Stonehouse rents a luxury apartment, starts to build a network of contacts, holds a party and generally begins to settle in to his new life oblivious to the heartache and distress his "death" has caused back home.
Stonehouse spent the remaining years of his life with her writing books until he died of a heart attack in 1988.
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 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Description: Writing to his son, Stonehouse describes the interruption of the Washington, D.C. celebration of Lee's surrender by the assassination of President Lincoln and stabbing of Secretary of State William Seward.
That evening, a few minutes after 10 o'clock, John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), a young actor and Confederate sympathizer (who had spied for Richmond and been part of a plot to kidnap Lincoln), entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington and shot the President in the back of the head.
A few minutes later, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869) stepped outside and announced to the assembled crowd, "he belongs to the ages." John Stonehouse was a Major and Inspector of the Ninth Bridage during the Civil War.
www.gilderlehrman.org /search/display_results.php?id=GLC00368.01   (712 words)

  
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 RRojas Databank: The Róbinson Rojas Archive.-Science, Risk Analysis and Environmental Issues
This paper was prepared for the United Nations Environment Programme by JOHN M. STONEHOUSE and JOHN D. MUMFORD, of the Environmental Law Group of the Imperial College Centre for Environmental Technology.
John Stonehouse studied history at Oxford University and zoology at Imperial College, London University.
John Mumford is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biology and the Centre for Environmental Technology at Imperial College, London.
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 JS Online:
John would ride the school bus that his mother drove, and made friends easily with other kids, his father said.
John was member of a children's ministry, directed by his mother, through Waukesha Bible Church.
Don Stonehouse said such a tragedy could not have been foreseen with everyday items such as a jump rope and the bunk beds, which John shared with his 7-year-old brother, Tony.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=137279   (630 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Missing M.P. -- Dec. 30, 1974 -- Page 1
By all accounts, British M.P. and Financier John Stonehouse was a mysterious man. "He was a complete loner," says one parliamentary colleague.
Nonetheless, according to his family, Stonehouse was trying to build up a fortune in preparation for an eventual bid for the Labor Party leadership.
Stonehouse put a country house that he bought two years ago up for sale and closed Global Imex's office in Bangladesh.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,909018,00.html   (722 words)

  
 Sporting Chance - Synopsis - Moviefone
John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide.
He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame.
Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all.
movies.aol.com /movie/sporting-chance/1033099/synopsis   (178 words)

  
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The Descendants of John "Stonehouse" McKenzie of Caribou Island
McKenzie (519) was born circa 1765 at Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
(1)  John W. Grant (784) was born on 31 Oct 1904.
www.carribooisland.com /stonehouse.htm   (1119 words)

  
 Pepys' Diary: Lenthall, Sir John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
He had been knighted by the Protector in 1657; but is styled ‘Mr Lenthall’ in the ‘Commons Journal of the House’ May 12th, 1660 where the proceedings alluded to by Pepys are fully detailed.
Wheatley goes on to say that another "Sir John Lenthall of whom Pepys speaks on August 10th, 1663, was the brother to the Speaker."
This Sir John "had the reputation of being a timeserver.
www.pepysdiary.com /p/827.php   (289 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "John Stonehouse": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Unfortunately, he had to work that evening and it happened to be the night John Stonehouse, an MP who had faked his death in Miami, turned up under arrest in Australia.
He mentioned that his name was John Stonehouse and that he was going for a swim.
John Villa Rentals -- Specialists in St. John Villa Rentals for more than 25 years.
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 thePeerage.com - John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon and others
John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (M) b.
     John Charles Villiers, 3rd Earl of Clarendon was born on 14 November 1757.
John Forbes and Lady Mary Capell, on 5 January 1791.
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 ARTICLE: Look and learn -DAWN - Books and Authors; September 17, 2006
Prominent among them were those relating to the case of John Stonehouse, the MP who in 1974 faked his death and embarked on a new life in Australia as “Joseph Markham” with his mistress Sheila Buckley.
Stonehouse had created a new identity for himself from the instructions offered in Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal.
The now notorious paragraph in the novel beginning “there is nothing easier than getting a false passport” has been drawn on over the decades by IRA cells and whole armies of illegal immigrants, by benefits fraudsters and, most recently, identity thieves.
www.dawn.com /weekly/books/archive/060917/books3.htm   (1229 words)

  
 Postal History of Bangladesh
A British politician and MP, John Stonehouse actively worked for printing and auctioning the stamps from London.
The site was the House of Commons and John Stonehouse, MP, until recently Britain's Postmaster General and Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, Vice Chancelor of Dacca University, in East Pakistan, were the principles involved.
Although in a very limited quantity since only ten sheets of each values were available in the country which arrived by helicopter the previous day in the hands of John Stonehouse, former MP of Britain who originally helped in printing of these stamps.
www.pabna.net /postal.htm   (1873 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Henry Leyland and others
He married Penelope Charlotte Stonehouse, daughter of John Stonehouse and Ellen, on 15 July 1811 in Manchester Cathedral, Manchester, Lancashire, England.
She was the daughter of John Stonehouse and Ellen.
John Dennis was born in Nagercoll, Madras, India.
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 johnlydon.com | interviews | The Daily Mirror, April 1994
Sixteen years on and Mr Rotten, alias John Lydon, is nursing a huge hangover but has lost none of his venom.
He is now 37 and still skinny, although a baggy pin-striped suit has replaced the ripped jeans and safety pins.
To Lydon, Cliff Richard is 'a joke', Elton John is 'a fat buffoon' and David Bowie 'a pompous prat'.
www.johnlydon.com /mirror94.html   (606 words)

  
 St. John Villa - Villa
John Stonehouse cordially invites you to have one of the most relaxing, beautiful and exciting vacations of a lifetime.
Stonehouse is set on one and a half acres on the far side of Bordeaux mountain with spectacular views of Coral Bay Harbour.
The walls in the house are made of beautiful island stone making you feel as if you are in a castle.
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 Spens History - pafn06 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Stonehouse on his death certificate, living at 23 Edward Street in Newcastle in 1939;
Occupation given in wife's death record; according to a letter by John Stonehouse in 1903, Nat was tall, thin, and 42, and had 8
Stonehouse, Martha, his aunt, died of war injuries in Glasgow as did 2 grdchrn, a boy Tommy and a girl Ellen, 9 and 11, children of dau Ellen, during the big air raid in 1942.
www.nathanielspens.com /pafn06.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Stamps of Bangladesh from The War of Liberation
A large sum of money was raised after the auction as was planned by Stonehouse in London, on the inaugural selling of the stamps and the FDC.
Involvement of ex-President of Bangladesh Abu Sayeed Chaudhury the then London based Ambassador of Bangladesh Government and Maudud Ahmed a functionary of the Bangladesh Government was first revealed in the different newspapers of UK, is still a question, which needs to be answered.
John Stonehouse later became a scandalous figure in the British politics.
www.banglarglimpse.com /wol.htm   (355 words)

  
 Ancestors of John Stonehouse
John was listed as a Seaman in Mrechant Service when his son John Thomas was
in 1881 Census age 40, painter; Death registration John was 76 years old,
John married Sarah Ann Spens, daughter of James Spens and Isabella Irvine, on 2 Sep 1867 in St. John's, Newcastle/Tyne, Northumberland, England.
people.bath.ac.uk /ccsdc/genealogy/ct/42.html   (259 words)

  
 News | Newly released records from 1975 include documents on John Stonehouse, EEC Referendum and Wilson's ...
The idea was that the government would speak up for low-cost issues, such as keeping the pint measure that would arouse a positive response from the country.
PREM 16/587-589 reveals the situation that John Stonehouse MP found himself in after being arrested by police in Melbourne.
The newly released files on Northern Ireland show how the Government was dealing with one of the worst years of the Troubles, in which 247 people died.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2005/highlights_december/december29/default.htm   (402 words)

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