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Johnstone, Andrew James Cochrane- (1767–1833?), politician and fraudster  

John Sugden

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Johnstone, Andrew James Cochrane- (1767–1833?), politician and fraudster, was born on 24 May 1767 at Belleville, a house in Edinburgh, the eighth surviving son of Thomas Cochrane, eighth earl of Dundonald (1691–1778), and his wife, Jean, née Stewart, of Torrance, Lanarkshire (1722?–1808).

The eighth earl's debts stood at ...

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Lincoln, Ignatius Timotheus Trebitsch [formerly Ignácz Trebitsch; name in religion Chao Kung] (1879–1943), political adventurer  

Bernard Wasserstein

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Lincoln, Ignatius Timotheus Trebitsch [formerly Ignácz Trebitsch; name in religion Chao Kung] (1879–1943), political adventurer, was born in Paks, Hungary, on 4 April 1879, the second son of Nathan Trebitsch (d. 1899), a merchant, and his wife, Julia, née Freund (...

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Stonehouse, John Thomson (1925–1988)  

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John Thomson Stonehouse (1925–1988) by Elliott & Fry, 1959 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Stonehouse, John Thomson (1925–1988), politician and confidence trickster  

C. S. Nicholls and Tom McNally

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23 September 2004
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Stonehouse, John Thomson (1925–1988), politician and confidence trickster, was born on 28 July 1925 in Southampton, the youngest of four children and second son of William Mitchell Stonehouse, Post Office engineer and later dockyard engine-fitter, and his wife, Rosina Marie, formerly a scullery maid in ...