• John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson (14 April 1910 – 31 January 1993) was a British architectural designer and businessman who caused a major political scandal...
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    ran a public relations firm and formed business links with architect John Poulson. In Smith's later life he campaigned for prisoners' issues and continued...
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    John Poulson Keyser, known professionally as John K (formerly stylized as JOHN.k), is an American pop singer. K's first single was the song "OT", which...
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    Cannon Street station (category John Poulson buildings)
    1950s by John Poulson, while further construction on top of the station building occurred during the City's 1980s property boom. The Poulson building...
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    when he was jailed for corruptly receiving gifts from the architect John Poulson.[citation needed] As admission to the top two levels of the organisation...
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    his death in 2009 Barbara Castle (1910–2002), Labour Party politician John Poulson (1910–1993), architectural designer and businessman Don Robinson (1932–2017)...
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    Charles Norris Poulson (July 23, 1895 – September 25, 1982) was an American politician who represented Southern California in public office at the local...
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  • played corrupt building contractor John Edwards, a character closely based on the real-life figure of John Poulson. He also had a semi-regular role as...
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    "Victorian buildings crashing to the ground". He went on to lambast John Poulson's British Railways House (now City House), saying how it blocked all the...
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  • civil servant who was imprisoned for corruption in 1974 following the John Poulson trial. George Pottinger was born in 1916, the elder son of the Reverend...
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    Leeds International Pool (category John Poulson buildings)
    architect John Poulson was convicted in 1974 of fraud in connection with the awarding of building contracts. Other buildings designed by Poulson include...
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  • Sykes (daughter of his first boss, Arthur Sykes, and sister-in-law of John Poulson) in 1941. The couple remained married until her death from cancer in...
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    George Muse, 3,400 acres for Andrew Waggener, 6,000 acres for John Poulson, 6,000 acres for John West. On the lower side of the Kanawha River, 13,532 acres...
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    (footballer) Stefan Ivan Kiszko Lilian Lenton David Oluwale Charles Peace John Poulson Paul Russell Peter Sutcliffe Listed buildings in Leeds (Armley Ward)...
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  • Characters such as Austin Donohue and John Edwards were directly based on the real-life scandals of T. Dan Smith and John Poulson. Flannery contacted Smith and...
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    City House (category John Poulson buildings)
    architect John Poulson who also designed the nearby Leeds International Pool. Upon its construction it was famously lambasted by the poet John Betjeman...
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    course closed at the time of WW2. Around 1998, many of the original John Poulson buildings were demolished as part of a promised £50 million overhaul...
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  • artist, poet, and proprietor of an arts club Eric Pickles – politician John Poulson – architectural designer Sam Quek – Team GB hockey player Georgia Taylor-Brown...
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    English case law no longer requiring a body. John George Haigh; English serial killer in the 1940s John Poulson; British architect and businessman, imprisoned...
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    details of the matter and was falsely sued for libel. Corrupt architect John Poulson and links to Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, Labour council...
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    Eston Town Hall (category John Poulson buildings)
    dedicated town hall. The new building was designed in the modern style by John Poulson, who was also the architect for many other buildings in the town, something...
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    2010 Pimlico School, London, John Bancroft (1967–1970); Demolished in 2010 Leeds International Pool, Leeds, John Poulson (1970); Demolished in 2009 Hyde...
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    when he was jailed for corruptly receiving gifts from the architect John Poulson. Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu was stripped of his honorary GCB...
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  • obtained a directorship in the company of John Poulson, an architect Maudling helped obtain lucrative contracts. Poulson routinely did business through bribery...
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  • most famous cases were the defence of Donald Neilson, the appeal of John Poulson, the Spycatcher case, the Matrix Churchill trial, and the Brink's-Mat...
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  • prosecution in several cases connected to the corrupt architect John Poulson, including that of Poulson himself. Over the next three years, the prosecutions succeeded...
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    Election Member Party Notes Feb 1974 John Cordle Conservative Resigned July 1977 as a result of the John Poulson scandal 1977 by-election David Atkinson...
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  • of campaign journalism, including his exposure of corrupt architect John Poulson and, most notably, his prominent role in the campaigns to overturn the...
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    been given a silver coffee pot donated by disgraced corrupt architect John Poulson when opening a school in Bradford in January 1966. It later transpired...
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  • Ireland, escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin. 15 March – Architect John Poulson is jailed for five years for corruption. 18 March – Oil embargo crisis:...
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