Fraudsters and Charlatans (43 page)

Smith-Hughes, Jack,
Six Ventures in Villainy
(London, Cassell, 1955)

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Lee, Sir Sydney (eds),
Dictionary of National Biography
(repr. London, Oxford University Press, 1973)

Thomas, Donald,
Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf
(St Helens, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 2001)

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Chapter 2: The Princess of Javasu

Atkyns, Robert,
The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire
(London, W. Herbert, 1768)

Cave, Charles Henry,
A History of Banking in Bristol
(Bristol, W. Crofton Hemmons, 1899)

Fry, Edmund,
Pantographia
(London, John and Arthur Arch, 1799)

Gutch, J.M.,
Caraboo. A Narrative of a Singular Imposition Practised upon the Benevolence of a Lady Residing in the Vicinity of the City of Bristol, by a Young Woman of the Name of Mary Willcocks, alias Baker, alias Bakerstendht, alias Caraboo, Princess of Javasu
(London, Baldwin Cradock and Joy, 1817)

Hager, Joseph, D.D.,
Explanation of the Elementary Characters of the Chinese; with an Analysis of their Ancient Symbols and Hieroglyphs
(London, Richard Phillips, 1801)

Raffles, Thomas Stamford,
The History of Java
, 2 vols (Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, Asia Historical Reprints, 1978)

Walker, Roy S.,
The Book of Almondsbury
(Buckingham, Barracuda Books Ltd, 1987)

Wells, John,
Princess Caraboo: Her True Story
(London, Pan, 1994)

PERIODICALS

Notes and Queries

The Rose the Shamrock and the Thistle

WEBSITES

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walkersj/Phipps8.htm
: for Phipps family genealogy pages; accessed March 2005

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walkersj/lechmere.htm
: for details of Elizabeth Worrall and Richard Lechmere, accessed March 2005

Chapter 3: The Viscount of Canada

Alexander, A.H. (as Earl of Stirling and Doven &c. &c. &c.),
Address to the Right Honourable the Peers of Scotland. To which is added a particular statement of his case by T.C. Banks Esq.
(Edinburgh, William Tait, 1831)

Alexander, A.H. (as Earl of Stirling)
Narrative of the Oppressive Law Proceedings, and other Measures, Resorted to by the British Government, and Numerous Private Individuals, to Overpower the Earl Of Stirling, and Subvert his Lawful Rights
(Edinburgh, James Walker, 1836)

Alexander, A.H. (as Earl of Stirling),
Two Letters Addressed to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Denman
(Paris, J. Smith, 1845)

Anon.,
Remarks on the Trial of the Earl of Stirling by an English Lawyer
(London, Lewis and Co., 1839)

Banks, Thomas C. (as Sir Thomas C. Banks Bart. N.S.),
An Analytical Statement of the Case of Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Dovan &c. &c. &c.
(London, James Cochrane and Co., 1832)

Dicta, Dimitriadis,
Mademoiselle le Normand
(Paris, Perrin, 1990)

Erickson, Carolly,
Josephine
(London, Robson Books, 1999)

Hayes, John L.,
Vindication of the Rights and Titles, Political and Territorial, of Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Doven, and Lord Proprietor of Canada and Nova Scotia
(Washington, Gideon and Co., 1853)

Macaulay, Joseph Babington,
The Life of the Last Earl of Stirling
(Paignton, W.A. Axworthy, 1906)

Marquiset, Alfred,
La Célèbre Mlle Lenormand
(Paris, unknown publisher, 1911)

Mauguin, Georges,
L'Imperatrice Josephine: Anecdotes et curiosités
(Paris, J. Peyronnet, 1954)

Rogers, Revd Charles, ‘History of Alexander Humphrys or Alexander, Claimant of the Earldom of Stirling', in
Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and of the House of Alexander
, 2 vols (Edinburgh, William Patterson, 1877), vol. 2, appendix 4, p. 210

Stevens, Abel (ed.), ‘Mademoiselle Le Normand',
National Magazine
(New York, Carlton and Phillips, 1853), vol. 2, pp. 435–40.

Swinton, Archibald,
Report of the Trial of Alexander Humphreys
[
sic
]
or Alexander, Claiming the Title of Earl of Stirling, before the High Court of Judiciary at Edinburgh for the Crime of Forgery
(Edinburgh, Thomas Clark, 1839)

Turnbull, William Esq. (ed.),
The Stirling Peerage. Trial of Alexander Humphrys or Alexander Styling himself Earl of Stirling
(Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1839)

Urban, Sylvanus (ed.),
The Gentleman's Magazine
(London, John Nichols and Son, 1819), vol. 89 (NS 12), pp. 98, 290

WEBSITE

www.familysearch.org
: International Genealogical Index

Chapter 4: The Sting

Anon.,
The History of The Times
, vol. 1,
The Thunderer in the Making, 1785–1841
(London,
The Times
, 1935; Kraus reprint, 1971), vol. 2,
The Tradition Established, 1841–1884
(London,
The Times
, 1939; Kraus reprint, 1971)

Anon.,
The Times Testimonial. Report of the Trial of the Action Bogle versus Lawson
(London, John Hatchard and Son, 1842)

Cunninghame-Graham, R.B,
Doughty Deeds: An Account of the Life of Robert Graham of Gartmore, Poet and Politician, 1735–1797
(London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1925)

Sala, George Augustus,
Twice round the Clock; or the Hours of Day and Night in London
(London, W. Kent and Co., 1861)

‘
The Times
Testimonial',
Sharps London Magazine
(1846), pp. 59–63

ARCHIVES

The Times
Archives, Bogle Case, Litigation 2

WEBSITE

http://www.florin.ms/cemetery.html
, accessed January 2006: Alphabetical Register of the Protestant Cemetery of Florence

Chapter 5: The Bank with No Scruples

Anon.,
The Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1856
(London, F. & J. Rivington, 1857)

Hynes, M., ‘Sadleir, M.P., Banker', in James White (ed.),
My Clonmel Scrapbook
(3rd edn, Clonmel, Tentmaker Publications, 1995)

Irish Chancery Reports
, vols 5, 11 (Dublin, Hodges Smith and Co., 1857, 1861)

McDermot, B.C., ‘Letters of John Scully to James Duff Coghlan',
Irish Genealogist
, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 54–76; no. 2, pp. 227–46; no. 3, pp. 353–69

O'Shea, James,
Prince of Swindlers
(Ireland, Geography Publications, 1999)

Sullivan, A.M.,
New Ireland
, 2 vols (London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877), vol. 1, ch. XV, ‘The Suicide Banker', pp. 354–81

Thomas, Revd H., BA,
John Sadleir, or The Ruined Speculator
(Melbourne, Wilson, Mackinson & Fairfax, 1856)

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Chapter 6: A Racing Certainty

Basset, Arthur Ward,
The Scotland Yard Scandal and Other Stories of Crime
(London, Austin Rogers and Co., 1928)

Browne, Douglas G.,
The Rise of Scotland Yard
(London, George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1956)

Clarke, Sir Edward,
The Story of my Life
(London, John Murray, 1918)

Cobb, Belton,
Critical Years at the Yard – The Career of Frederick Williamson of the Detective Department and the CID
(London, Faber and Faber, 1956)

Dilnot, George,
The Story of Scotland Yard
(London, Geoffrey Bles, 1926)

Dilnot, George (ed.),
The Trial of the Detectives
(London, Geoffrey Bles, 1928)

Howe, Sir Ronald,
The Story of Scotland Yard
(London, Arthur Barker Ltd, 1965)

Lansdowne, Detective-Inspector Andrew,
A Life's Reminiscences of Scotland Yard
(London, The Leadenhall Press Ltd, 1893)

Littlechild, J.G.,
The Reminiscences of Chief Inspector Littlechild
(London, The Leadenhall Press, 1894)

Meiklejohn, ex-Chief Inspector John,
Real Life Detective Stories
(London, John Dicks Press, 1912)

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Chapter 7: The Grappler

Anon.,
The Hooley Book
(London, John Dicks, 1904)

Hooley, Ernest Terah,
Confessions
(London, Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent and Co., 1924)

PERIODICALS

The Economist

Irish Field and Gentleman's Gazette

Money

Chapter 8: The Greatest Liar on Earth

Barrett, Charles,
White Blackfellows
(Melbourne, Hallcraft Publishing Co. Pty Ltd, 1948)

Clune, Frank,
The Greatest Liar on Earth
(Melbourne, Hawthorn Press, 1945)

Daily Chronicle
,
Grien on Rougemont, or the Story of a Modern Robinson Crusoe
(London, Edward Lloyd Ltd, 1898)

Friederichs, Hulda,
The Life of Sir George Newnes, Bart.
(London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1911)

Grin, H.L. (as Louis de Rougemont),
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, as Told by Himself
(London, George Newnes Ltd, 1899)

Kirwan, The Hon. Sir John,
An Empty Land: Pioneers and Pioneering in Australia
(London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934)

Mill, H.M.,
An Autobiography
(London, Longmans Green and Co., 1951)

Wide World Magazine
(London, George Newnes Ltd, from 1898)

Chapter 9: The Juggler with Millions

Ashley, F.W.,
My Sixty Years in the Law
(London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936)

Black, Charles E. Drummond,
The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
(London, Hutchinson and Co., 1903)

Felstead, Sidney Theodore,
Sir Richard Muir
, ed. Lady Muir (London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927)

Horne, M.A.C.,
The Bakerloo Line: A Short History
(London, Douglas Rose, 1990)

Jackson, Stanley,
Mr Justice Avory
(London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935)

Lougheed, Alan, ‘The London Stock Exchange Boom in Kalgoorlie Shares, 1895–1901',
Australian Economic History Review
, 35, 1 March 1995, pp. 83–102

Lyall, Sir Alfred,
The Life of the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
, 2 vols (London, John Murray, 1905)

Radclyffe, Raymond,
Wealth and Wild Cats: Travels and Researches in the Gold-Fields of Western Australia and New Zealand
(London, Downey and Co., 1898)

Reading, The Marquess of,
Rufus Isaacs First Marquess of Reading by his Son
(London, Hutchinson, 1943)

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Chapter 10: The Double Duke

Archard, Charles J.,
The Portland Peerage Romance
(London, Greening and Co., 1907)

Besterman, Theodore,
The Druce–Portland Case
(Duckworth, London, 1935)

Bradbury, D.J.,
Welbeck and the 5th Duke of Portland
(Mansfield, Wheel Publications, 1989)

Coburn, Thomas K.V.,
The Portland Millions. Was Druce the Duke?
(Privately printed,
c.
1905)

Coburn, Thomas K.V., ‘The Druce Claim to the Portland Millions', in Robert Barr (ed.),
The Idler
(London, Chatto and Windus, 1905–6), vol. 29, pp. 791–3

Druce, G.H., ‘Which is the Duke?', in Robert Barr (ed.),
The Idler
(London, Chatto and Windus, 1905–6), vol. 28, pp. 356–64

Druce, G.H., ‘The Druce Case', in Robert Barr (ed.),
The Idler
(London, Chatto and Windus, 1905–6), vol. 28, pp. 518–29, 630–45; vol. 29, pp. 114–28

Henderson, Kenneth, ‘Fresh Evidence on the Druce Case', in Robert Barr (ed.),
The Idler
(London, Chatto and Windus, 1905–6), vol. 29, pp. 396–402

O'Donnell, Bernard,
The Trials of Mr Justice Avory
(London, Rich & Cowan Ltd, 1935)

Turberville, A.S.,
A History of Welbeck Abbey and its Owners
, 2 vols (London, Faber and Faber, 1938)

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WEBSITE

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/cats/port_londonpll.html#druce6
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