• The Crichel Down affair was a British political scandal of 1954, with a subsequent effect and notoriety. The Crichel Down Rules are guidelines applying...
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  • made legal history in the Crichel Down affair. Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt was born on 12 September 1929 at Moor Crichel, the daughter of Napier Sturt...
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    Party politician. He resigned as a government minister over the Crichel Down Affair, often quoted as a classic example of the convention of individual...
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    Crichel House is a Grade I listed Classical Revival country house near the village of Moor Crichel in Dorset, England. The house has an entrance designed...
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  • leading to the resignation of his minister from parliament (cf. the Crichel Down affair). The film is based around the fictionalised events of a massacre...
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    Government and won, leading to the resignation of a Minister, in the Crichel Down Affair. Alington may well be most notable for having dated Tallulah Bankhead...
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    the post of the Parliamentary Ombudsman was spurred on by the 1954 Crichel Down affair and by the activism of pressure groups, including the Society for...
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  • His most notable contribution was to bring to public attention the Crichel Down affair, in which the Government's failure to sell requisitioned land back...
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    Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (category British Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
    deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire on 2 July 1951. During the Crichel Down affair, which led to the resignation of minister Thomas Dugdale, Carington...
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  • lack of cohesion and supervision. The catalyst for this was the Crichel Down Affair. However, this was a result of a decision by the British Government...
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  • eclipse in America casts its shadow over Europe and Asia. July – Crichel Down affair, a political scandal over compulsory land purchase leads to resignation...
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  • maladministration. The formulation of some guidelines took place during the Crichel Down Affair in 1954 in which the Minister of Agriculture, Thomas Dugdale, resigned...
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  • organisation Mau Mau. Later that year he represented the litigants in the Crichel Down affair, which led to changes in the law on compulsory purchase. In 1955...
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  • civil service. He was secretary to the commission investigating the Crichel Down affair in 1956 and was subsequently the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries...
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    (1929–2010), aristocrat and landowner who made legal history in the Crichel Down affair; goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; High Sheriff of...
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  • out of retirement to fill the role between 1954 and 1955 after the Crichel Down Affair. Cleverly married Priscilla Simpson, daughter of Prof. Frederick...
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    life of citizens. In 1954, the government was embarrassed by the Crichel Down affair which focused public fears about maladministration and the abuse...
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  • during the Malayan Emergency. Crichel Down and the resignation of Thomas Dugdale (1954) Suez Crisis (1956) Vassall affair (1963): civil servant John Vassall...
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  • the Bank Rate Tribunal and the Profumo affair. In 1953, he conducted the inquiry into the Crichel Down affair, which led to the resignation of the Minister...
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  • to deal with difficult problems. He picked up the pieces in the Crichel Down affair and was heavily involved in the Icelandic Cod War. His diplomacy...
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