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David McKie |
David McKie joined the Guardian newspaper in 1965, where he was deputy editor from 1975 to 1984. He now writes the ‘Elsewhere’ and ‘Smallweed’ columns for the paper and is author of Great British Bus Journeys. |
Jabez was a businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer. He was also an astonishing scoundrel – a liar, adulterer and cheat – who perpetrated the most destructive fraud of the nineteenth century.
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