biography
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Stonehouse, John (Thompson)
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| lived:
| (1925–88)
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| biography:
| British politician, born in Southampton, Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at the London School of Economics, and was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour MP in 1957. He held junior ministerial posts under Harold Wilson before being appointed minister of technology (1967–8) and minister of posts and telecommunications (1968–70). Complications in his financial affairs and private life led him to fake his death by supposed drowning off a Miami beach in 1974, but he was identified in Australia a year later, returned to Britain, and was found guilty of fraud and embezzlement. After an early release from prison for good behaviour in 1979, he married his secretary, Sheila Buckley (1981). He joined the Social Democratic Party in 1982, but spent the rest of his life in obscurity. |
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