RIP Lord Lucan

[slowmotion]

was it John Stonehouse, the discraced MP who did a Reggie Perrin pretending to have drowned but actually did a bunk to Australia. He got caught when someone got suspisious that this posh-sounding bloke might be Lord Lucan

The police asked Stonehouse to take his trousers off after he was arrested to see if he had Lord Lucan's scar on his thigh.

 

[Profpointy]

That's correct. I think the TV series was inspired by that.

Ah, so Reggie did a Stonehouse rather than the other way round

 

[robjh]

But another Lord Lucan takes his place.

Bloody aristocracy, they're like bindweed, you just can't get rid of them.

 

[Markymark]

He's been declared dead more times than anyone I think...

Phil Collin's career?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

[QUOTE 4138026, member: 259"]Helpfully, the new Lord Lucan is called Lord Bingham.[/QUOTE]
How does that work?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

He may not be dead yet. "Born: December 18, 1934, Marylebone." Makes him 81. Nobbut a youngster compared to @User14044

 

[Aperitif]

How does that work?

It will open pathways for the burdened ex-hedge fund manager and merchant banker. Career opportunities such as this one. Drinks all round!

'Here's Lucan at you, kid'

Additional Lords Tittle Tattle...

 

[Hyslop]

The police asked Stonehouse to take his trousers off after he was arrested to see if he had Lord Lucan's scar on his thigh.

Quite close friends were they?

 

[winjim]

I can't believe he's gone.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

*Ahem*

To be pedantic he was legally declared dead by the High Court in in 1999*. What's happened today is that a death certificate has been issued, allowing his son to inherit the title.




*He was also declared dead by the High Court in 1994, which allowed his estate to be dealt with. He's been declared dead more times than anyone I think...

So was he really a cat, then?

 

[Fnaar]

The police asked Stonehouse to take his trousers off after he was arrested to see if he had Lord Lucan's scar on his thigh.

Miss Goodbody always asks that of MPs and the aristocracy, usually Thursday afternoons.

 

[slowmotion]

Quite close friends were they?

Excellent!

 

[pawl]

Nonsense.

I met him down the launderette this morning.

I saw him riding shergar yesterday .

 

[mrandmrspoves]

I saw him riding shergar yesterday .

Taking into consideration the fact that he was a Lord, can you please clarify what you mean by "riding"?

 

[mrandmrspoves]

.......or not!