• Arthur John Maundy Gregory, who later used the name Arthur John Peter Michael Maundy Gregory (1 July 1877 – 28 September 1941) was a British theatre producer...
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  • ceremonies which occurs on Maundy Thursday Maundy money, dispensed at the Maundy ceremony by the British Monarch Maundy Gregory This disambiguation page...
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    epidemic. In 1918, Sir Basil Thomson, head of the Special Branch, asked Maundy Gregory to spy on Grayson, suspecting him of working as an agent for the new...
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  • in Jamaica Maundy Gregory (1877–1941), British theatre producer and self-declared spy Melissa Gregory, American figure skater Michael Gregory (actor), American...
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    time. The character of sinister "Fat Man" Kasper Gutman was based on Maundy Gregory, an overweight British detective-entrepreneur who was involved in many...
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    building was later converted to flats where the best-known resident was Maundy Gregory, who was famous (or infamous) for selling political honours. In 1929...
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    Maundy (from Old French mandé, from Latin mandatum meaning "command"), or Washing of the Saints' Feet, Washing of the Feet, or Pedelavium or Pedilavium...
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  • Alexander Grant gave £250 and the Duke of Westminster gave £2,000 through Maundy Gregory. National Labour had collected £20,000 in total for election expenses...
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    work reveals that Rolfe had an unlikely enthusiast in the person of Maundy Gregory. Rolfe was entirely comfortable with his homosexuality and associated...
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  • artist who knew him entering a house in Thames Ditton belonging to Maundy Gregory, corrupt honours dealer, who is alleged to have murdered Grayson who...
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  • process was ended in May 2022. A scandal in the 1920s was the sale by Maundy Gregory of honours and peerages to raise political funds for David Lloyd George...
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    1922 when it became known that Lloyd George, through the agency of Maundy Gregory, had awarded honours and titles such as a baronetcy to rich businessmen...
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  • David Greetham, cricketer, was born in Liss Jack Gregory, footballer, was born in Southampton Maundy Gregory, political fixer, was born in Southampton John...
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  • ISBN 0-393-32649-7. Andrew Cook (1 May 2013). Cash for Honours: The Story of Maundy Gregory. History Press Limited. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-7524-9621-4. Shaw, Mike (18...
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    million pounds. He is best remembered as having paid political fixer Maundy Gregory £30,000, towards Prime Minister Lloyd George’s political fund, in exchange...
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    knighthood, £40,000 for a baronetcy), to raise funds for his party, via Maundy Gregory. This was not illegal at the time. A major attack in the House of Lords...
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  • , Milano, 1973. Translation by Rosanna Pelà. Murder by Perfection: Maundy Gregory, the Man Behind Two Unsolved Mysteries?. London: Jarrolds, 1970. A History...
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    21st Baroness de Ros (1769–1831) Colonel Sidney Godolphin (1652–1732) Maundy Gregory (1 July 1877 – 28 September 1941) Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester...
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  • and secret funding operations, including those of Honours trafficker Maundy Gregory; money from this operation helped fund Chamberlain's appeasement policy;...
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  • involved in a barely concealed "cash for patronage" scandal managed by Maundy Gregory, which resulted in the 1925 Act which barred this (purchase of peerages...
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  • Whitechapel Gazette, owned by the highly questionable social figure Maundy Gregory.[citation needed] He burlesqued such views in his 1925 Sherlock Holmes...
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  • Sarah Ann Everard (aka Annie Hearn) (1931) Murder of Edith Rosse by Maundy Gregory (1932) Vera Page (1932)1957 Brighton trunk murders (1934) Ethel Major...
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  • purchased a baronetcy (of Ifield Hall in the County of Sussex) from Maundy Gregory as part of the Lloyd George honours scandal. He married Elizabeth Berlips...
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    like the company he'd be in and above all, wouldn't shake hands with Maundy Gregory for the fear the mud would stick to his!". Langhorne died in Barnwood...
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    Maundy Gregory, Lloyd George's "honours broker", in 1933 – whose same behaviour in 1918 was the main cause of the Act in the first place. Gregory's 1933...
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  • Publishing. Cook, Andrew (2008), Cash for Honours: the True Life of Maundy Gregory; Sutton; 256 pages. Cook, Andrew (2009), Jack the Ripper; Amberley Publishing;...
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    Pugh has called Sutherland "an unsavoury character" who, together with Maundy Gregory, Lloyd George used to raise money by lavishly dispensing honours at...
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    providing £30,000 to the Conservative Government to ensure honours salesman Maundy Gregory stayed out of Britain. One of his most-well known gifts was his rescue...
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    bungalow in Staines, Middlesex. His friend and business manager was Maundy Gregory who often lodged with the couple. Later, the three moved to a house...
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    and contains the days of the Easter Triduum including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating...
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