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Maundy Gregory: Purveyor of Honours

Tom Cullen

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Description:Political jobbery and corruption flourished during Lloyd George's last years as Prime Minister, and in particular to the sale of honours. Not only did Lloyd George establish a price scale, starting with £10,000 for a knighthood, but many of those whom he honoured were 'gross illiterate profiteers, doubtful in their reputations, vulgar in their lives', in the words of 'The Banker'. At the centre of this web of corruption and intrigue was J. Maundy Gregory, who operated as honours broker in chief and proved to be the most successful, selling more knighthoods and baronetcies than any other, and got away with it for a longer period of time. There was another, perhaps darker side to Gregory's life: his friendship with Edith Rosse, a middle-aged former actress who died under mysterious circumstances in 1932, leaving Gregory £18,000 just when he desperately needed money to save himself from exposure.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maundy Gregory: Purveyor of Honours. To get started finding Maundy Gregory: Purveyor of Honours, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 256

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Bodley Head

Release: 1974

ISBN: 0370013735

Description: Political jobbery and corruption flourished during Lloyd George's last years as Prime Minister, and in particular to the sale of honours. Not only did Lloyd George establish a price scale, starting with £10,000 for a knighthood, but many of those whom he honoured were 'gross illiterate profiteers, doubtful in their reputations, vulgar in their lives', in the words of 'The Banker'. At the centre of this web of corruption and intrigue was J. Maundy Gregory, who operated as honours broker in chief and proved to be the most successful, selling more knighthoods and baronetcies than any other, and got away with it for a longer period of time. There was another, perhaps darker side to Gregory's life: his friendship with Edith Rosse, a middle-aged former actress who died under mysterious circumstances in 1932, leaving Gregory £18,000 just when he desperately needed money to save himself from exposure.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Maundy Gregory: Purveyor of Honours. To get started finding Maundy Gregory: Purveyor of Honours, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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