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John Stonehouse

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John Stonehouse

John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 1925 – 14 April 1988) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, businessman and minister who was a member of the Cabinet under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. He is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. It is alleged that Stonehouse had been an agent for Czechoslovak military intelligence.

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Prime Minister
Harold Wilson
Preceded by
Stanley Evans
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Born
John Thomson Stonehouse(1925-07-28)28 July 1925Southampton, Hampshire, England
Died
14 April 1988(1988-04-14) (aged 62)Totton, Hampshire, England
Political party
Labour Co-operative (1941–1976)English National (1976)SDP (1981–1988)Liberal Democrats (1988)
Spouses
mw- Barbara Smith (m. 1948; div. 1978) Sheila Buckley (m. 1981)
Children
4
Alma mater
London School of Economics
Party
Labour Co-operative (1941–1976)English National (1976)SDP (1981–1988)Liberal Democrats (1988)

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Preceded byStanley Evans
Preceded byStanley Evans
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byStanley Evans
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of Parliament for Wednesbury 1957 – 1974
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Constituency abolished
Preceded byWilliam Wells
Preceded byWilliam Wells
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byWilliam Wells
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of Parliament for Walsall North 1974–1976
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Succeeded byRobin Hodgson
Political offices
Political offices
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Political offices
Preceded byRoy Mason
Preceded byRoy Mason
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byRoy Mason
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Postmaster General 1968–1969
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Position abolished
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byStanley Evans
Member of Parliament for Wednesbury 1957 – 1974
Constituency abolished
Preceded byWilliam Wells
Member of Parliament for Walsall North 1974–1976
Succeeded byRobin Hodgson
Political offices
Preceded byRoy Mason
Postmaster General 1968–1969
Position abolished

References

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    http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39863
  2. The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
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  3. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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  4. Stonehouse 2021, p. 18.
  5. "John Stonehouse prison treatment"
    http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/0009600089013
  6. The Politico's Book of the Dead, Iain Dale, Politico's, 2003, p. 90
  7. A Tangled Web: Sex Scandals in British Politics and Society, Harford Montgomery Hyde, Little, Brown Book Group Ltd, 1987
  8. Southern Daily Echo
    http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4675564.The_secrets_of_Stonehouse/
  9. Express & Star
    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2023/01/02/the-incredible-life-of-john-stonehouse---a-once-high-flying-mp-who-faked-his-own-death/
  10. Joan Abse (ed.), My LSE (London: Robson Books, 1977), p. 157.
  11. Who's Who & Who Was Who
    https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U169517
  12. Keesing's Contemporary Archives Volume XII, (April 1959) p. 16774
  13. Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Volume 14, (March 1968) p. 22619
  14. "SOCIAL CONTRACT (Hansard, 14 November 1974)"
    https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1974/nov/14/social-contract#S5CV0881P0_19741114_HOC_133
  15. Hayes 2021, p. 71.
  16. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/05/three-labour-mps-history-mi5
  17. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/05/politicians-soviet-agents-mi5-book
  18. The Guardian; Politics
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/dec/30/margaret-thatcher-spying-john-stonehouse
  19. Gordon Corera "Tory MP Raymond Mawby sold information to Czech spies", BBC News, 28 June 2012
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18617168
  20. "MP planned fake death for months"
    https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4564226.stm
  21. History's greatest scandals: shocking stories of powerful people
  22. The Justice Game
  23. Stonehouse 2021, p. 204.
  24. Hansard
    https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1975/oct/20/personal-statement#S5CV0898P0_19751020_HOC_238
  25. Hayes 2021, p. 343.
  26. The London Gazette
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46994/page/11347
  27. The London Gazette
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/47003/page/11917
  28. Express & Star
    https://www.expressandstar.com/series/true-crime/2022/12/15/the-cabinet-minister-john-stonehouse/
  29. BBC News
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39925965
  30. i
    https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/my-father-john-stonehouse-mp-faked-own-death-spy-historians-say-1110532
  31. BBC News
    https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4564226.stm
  32. The Guardian pp. 15–17. November 1978
  33. BFI
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180422163822/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7607c4f8
  34. www.findmypast.co.uk
    https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BMD/M/1969/3/AO/000179/080
  35. BBC News
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57942759
  36. Stonehouse 2021.
  37. Find My Past
    https://web.archive.org/web/20090220163304/http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp
  38. Glasgow Herald. 15 April 1988
  39. BBC News
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30609527
  40. The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/03/stonehouse-story-far-more-fascinating-than-tv-drama-suggests-relative-says
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