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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 14, 2017 23:20:12 GMT
I had a letter from Ruritania once, addressed to the wrong person. I sent it back marked "Return to Zenda". Anthony Hope stood for parliament once. Didn't get in. (just like H Rider Haggard) Arthur Conan Doyle stood for Parliament, and lost - to his publisher. |
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 14, 2017 23:28:55 GMT
Anthony Hope stood for parliament once. Didn't get in. (just like H Rider Haggard) Arthur Conan Doyle stood for Parliament, and lost - to his publisher. He actually stood twice and lost - once as a Liberal and then as a Liberal Unionist. A E W Mason author of the "Four Feathers" was luckier - he was elected as the Liberal MP for Coventry. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Sept 14, 2017 23:32:02 GMT
And of course John Buchan of 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' was Unionist MP for Combined Scottish Universities.
John Creasey, who fought several byelections in the late 1960s for the 'All Party Alliance', was a noted thriller writer.
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 15, 2017 0:02:59 GMT
And of course John Buchan of 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' was Unionist MP for Combined Scottish Universities. John Creasey, who fought several byelections in the late 1960s for the 'All Party Alliance', was a noted thriller writer. Geoffrey Chaucer was MP for Kent. Edgar Wallace stood as the Liberal candidate in Blackpool (and lost). Creasey was originally a Liberal I think. |
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Post by neilm on Sept 15, 2017 1:36:24 GMT
Buchan later became Governor General of Canada, I think?
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Post by jigger on Sept 15, 2017 1:39:14 GMT
Buchan later became Governor General of Canada, I think? Yes, from November 1935 until his death in February 1940. |
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Post by neilm on Sept 15, 2017 1:40:36 GMT
Buchan later became Governor General of Canada, I think? Yes, from November 1935 until his death in February 1940. I was just Wikipedia-ing it  |
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Post by jigger on Sept 15, 2017 1:42:56 GMT
Yes, from November 1935 until his death in February 1940. I was just Wikipedia-ing it I already knew he was Governor General just before and in the early part of the Second World War but had to look up the precise dates as well. |
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Post by myth11 on Nov 18, 2020 23:37:10 GMT
King Charles the 1st did try to get everyone with £40 in year in freehold land to be a knight and that ended well..... |
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Post by peterl on Nov 20, 2020 2:34:45 GMT
Fees to inherit titles is rather reminiscent of the feudal duties charged on inheritance amoungst the aristocracy that were abolished I believe just before the civil war. They were generally unpopular.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 20, 2020 13:45:39 GMT
I wonder what European country Ruritania would most resemble now. Austria? Hungary?
Will they be arguing about seats like Hentzau Banks, Strelsau Outer or Rassendyll & Darwen?
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Post by carlton43 on Nov 20, 2020 15:07:23 GMT
I wonder what European country Ruritania would most resemble now. Austria? Hungary? Will they be arguing about seats like Hentzau Banks, Strelsau Outer or Rassendyll & Darwen? Did you see that result of the Zenda North by-election? That is a political hostage to fortune! |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 20, 2020 15:14:42 GMT
I wonder what European country Ruritania would most resemble now. Austria? Hungary? Will they be arguing about seats like Hentzau Banks, Strelsau Outer or Rassendyll & Darwen? Did you see that result of the Zenda North by-election? That is a political hostage to fortune! I missed that but I know Sophy got elected in Kravonia. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 20, 2020 15:18:50 GMT
I wonder what European country Ruritania would most resemble now. Austria? Hungary? Will they be arguing about seats like Hentzau Banks, Strelsau Outer or Rassendyll & Darwen? Did you see that result of the Zenda North by-election? That is a political hostage to fortune! You can deal with the disappointment, it's the Hope that kills you. |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 20, 2020 15:46:59 GMT
Did you see that result of the Zenda North by-election? That is a political hostage to fortune! You can deal with the disappointment, it's the Hope that kills you. Anthony Hope (Hawkins) was the Liberal candidate for the Southern or Wycombe division of Buckinghamshire in the 1892 General Election. He lost. |
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Post by peterl on Nov 20, 2020 16:15:11 GMT
With the aristocracy, and Parliament who felt it gave the monarch too much power and thus reduced his reliance on Parliament for approval of new taxes. |
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