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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.
John Preston (born 1953) is an English journalist and novelist. He is the author of books and screenplays which became successful films on Netflix (The Dig with Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Carey Mulligan) and award-winning series on BBC (A Very English Scandal with Hugh Grant) and on ITV (Stonehouse, with Matthew Macfadyen).
Stonehouse is a British comedy-drama [1] television series dramatising the life and times of disgraced British government minister John Stonehouse, first broadcast from 2 to 4 January 2023. The series starred Matthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes and was directed by Jon S. Baird from a script by John Preston .
While fans eagerly await the new season of Succession, they can watch Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen return to his English roots as embattled Member of Parliament John Stonehouse in the BritBox ...
Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a Cabinet ministerial position in HM Government.Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph Act 1868 established the Postmaster General's right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs.
On 25 March 1988, the former MP John Stonehouse collapsed on set during an edition of the programme which was filming a segment about missing people. He was given emergency medical treatment at the studio and taken to hospital, where he was diagnosed as having suffered from a minor heart attack. [3]
Jon Stonehouse-- Chief Executive Officer. Thank you, John. We ended 2024 with the strongest execution and performance in the company's history. What's even more exciting is it happened across the ...
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier. [7] The Telegraph is considered a newspaper of record in ...