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Lucan, George Charles Bingham, 3rd earl of
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Lucan, George Charles Bingham, 3rd earl of (1800–88). Born into an aristocratic family, George Bingham became an officer in the British army by purchase in 1816. After ten years of further purchase, he gained command of the 17th Lancers. Bingham had a reputation for personal bravery but was also ruthless and harsh. He relinquished his command in 1837, succeeding to the title of Lord Lucan two years later. Despite his lack of recent military experience, in 1854 Lucan was appointed to command a cavalry division for service against the Russians. Landing in the Crimea in September, the cavalry accompanied the rest of the army in an advance on Sebastopol; on 25 October, during the battle of
Balaclava, Lucan's poor relations with his brother-in-law Lord
Cardigan contributed to the ill-fated
‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ under Cardigan's command. Lucan rose to the rank of field marshal in 1887.
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Lucan is alive and on the vodka, says detective
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...mysteries of the century - the disappearance of Lord Lucan. One of the detectives who hunted Lucan throughout the 1970s after the brutal murder...disappearance. Now that Goldsmith is dead, Lucan's cover may one day be blown. The biggest...
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Lucan at a hit for Lord's memoirs
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 4/18/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...and quite possibly the century. Lord Lucan explains, in his own words, about his...Except, of course, the book - Lord Lucan: My Story, due to be published next month...anything is possible to the legions of Lucan conspiracy theorists, the most likely...
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Lord Lucan could still be alive, says the detective leading a new hunt for him The latest policeman investigating the fugitive earl discounts the long-held theory that he threw himself off a Channel ferry
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 11/7/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...investigation into the disappearance of Lord Lucan believes that the peer escaped from Britain...computer-generated image of how Lord Lucan might look if, at the age of 69, he is...not share the widely held view that Lord Lucan committed suicide by jumping from a cross...
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Lord Lucan: a mystery with no end
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan. London - and the Clermont Club - were...were for "mug-punters", said Lord Lucan, who drove an R-type Bentley and favoured...producer, Cubby Broccoli. To understand Lucan, it is crucial to know that his money...
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Lord Lucan wife moves to declare him legally dead
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 4/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; THE WIFE of Lord Lucan has said she is taking formal steps to...husband declared legally dead. Lady Veronica Lucan, 61, has asked the executor of her husband...The move comes almost 24 years after Lord Lucan disappeared after the murder of their children...
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LORD LUCAN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING LETTER
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/10/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...this time 30 years ago, the 7th Earl of Lucan was planning to murder his wife, Veronica...remember why I was assigned the story of Lord Lucan's attempt to kill his wife and his subsequent...a note of one last message from Lord Lucan which will inevitably rekindle speculation...
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SECRETS OF LUCAN'S FILE; As the police reopen the case thirty years after his disappearance, tantalising new evidence has emerged ...
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/27/2004; 700+ words
; ...moustache, is hardly recognisable as Lord Lucan. Gone is the proud aristocratic bearing...searched the globe for the runaway 7th Earl of Lucan. Meanwhile, in what many view as a deliberate...stubbornly silent. Now the 'photograph' of Lucan, ageenhanced to show him approaching his...
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Elusive Lord Lucan Supposedly Found
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/8/2003; ; 649 words
; ...the disappearance of the dashing Lord Lucan from a bloodstained car near the English...Some thought the debate about whether Lucan drowned himself in the English Channel...state of Goa in the early 1990s are of Lucan. Former policeman Duncan MacLaughlin claims...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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SIX REASONS WHY LUCKY LUCAN LIVES ON IN AFRICA; LUCAN did not own any sort of powerboat. NO boats were reported missing at the time he vanished. STORMS stopped all vessels leaving Newhaven after the murder. He would have been spotted at once. WHERE did Aspinall get his details from? WHY did he say nothing before? LUCAN'S notes to friends after he fled were far from suicidal. Cop blasts drowning theory.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 2/15/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...spent six years hunting for missing Lord Lucan yesterday dismissed claims that the peer...David "Buster" Gerring is adamant that Lucan is living in southern Africa after extensive...believe the suicide theory put forward by Lucan's best friend, John Aspinall. Millionaire...
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Police relaunch inquiry into Lord Lucan case Scotland Yard employs new DNA techniques and a computer image of how the peer might look now in fresh attempt to solve the murder mystery
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/17/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...making a fresh attempt to solve the Lord Lucan murder case, 30 years after the peer vanished...computer-generated image of how Lord Lucan would look today if he were still alive...available at the time of the murder. Lord Lucan, who would be nearing his 70th birthday...
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Lucan, George Charles Bingham, 3rd earl of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Lucan, George Charles Bingham, 3rd earl of (1800...command in 1837, succeeding to the title of Lord Lucan two years later. Despite his lack of recent military experience, in 1854 Lucan was appointed to command a cavalry division for...
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Lucan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) , AD 39-AD 65, Latin poet, b. Có...and extravagant, it has a kind of vigorous beauty and grandeur, which gave Lucan a high place in the esteem of later writers. Bibliography: See study by...
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Patrick Sarsfield Lucan, earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Patrick Sarsfield Lucan, earl of see Sarsfield, Patrick, earl of Lucan .
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Lucan, Lord
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Lucan, Lord a British peer who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1974 following an attack on his wife and the murder of the family nanny. Speculation about his survival and whereabouts continues to this day, and his name may be used allusively.
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Lucan, Arthur
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Lucan, Arthur, see FEMALE IMPERSONATION .
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