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The affair attracted other claimants from around the world and in 1903 George Hollamby Druce arrived in England from Australia. G. H Druce was the son of George Druce and the grandson of T. C Druce and therefore also brought with him legal claims to the Portland estate. These claims led to the Druce v.
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854, was a British Army officer and peer, most remembered for his eccentric behaviour.
There are a number of files at The National Archives on the whole affair - of which the "box of documents" filed at DPP 1/11 is the most extensive. Jackiespeel 15:33, 20 August 2009 (UTC) A piece on the DP case will 'appear' at The History Files shortly. AMD was stated as being 'delusional' by some of the lawyers in the original case.
The Caldwell in the Druce-Portland affair was a "Robert C. Caldwell of New York". Salmanazar 13:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC) Comment on NPOV. The article is strongly and ...
Portland was the elder son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, and his wife, Winifred Anna (née Dallas-Yorke). He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark in 1922, a seat he held until he succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1943, and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury under Stanley Baldwin from 1927 to 1929 and under Ramsay MacDonald ...
In June 1879, Druce moved to Oxford and set up his own chemist's shop, Druce & Co., at 118 High Street, which continued until his death. He also featured as a shopkeeper in the Oxford novel Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. A plaque to Druce was erected on this shop by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board in April 2018. [3]
Druce was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize". Druce was sexually abused in a boarding school as a child. Also, since Geoghan had taught another inmate how to sexually abuse children, Druce's crimes were partly due to the fact that he felt he had to take revenge on all child sexual abusers.
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