John Stapleton (fl
John Stapleton may refer to: *John Stapleton (Australian journalist) (born 1952), Australian journalist * John Stapleton (English journalist) (born 1946), English journalist and broadcaster *John Stapleton (MP) (1816–1891), English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1852 and 1874 * John Stapleton (fl.1406), MP for Midhurst (UK Parliament constituency) * John Stapleton (fl.1421), MP for Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency) * John Stapleton (playwright), collaborator in the adaptation of ''A Gentleman of Leisure ''A Gentleman of Leisure'' is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, ''The Gem Collector'', in the December 1909 issue of ''Ainslee's Magazine''. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a ...

John Stapleton (Australian Journalist)
John Stapleton (born 21 June 1952) is an Australian journalist. The first money he ever made out of writing was in 1974 when he was co-winner of a short story competition held by what was then Australia's leading cultural celebration, the Adelaide Arts Festival. He graduated from Macquarie University in 1975 with a double major in philosophy and did post-graduate work with the Sociology Department at Flinders University Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator .... As a freelance journalist in the 1970s and 1980s, while alternating between living in Sydney and London, his articles and fiction appeared in a wide range of magazines, newspapers and anthologies, including '' The Australian Financial Review.'' John Stapleton worked on '' The Sydney Morning Herald'' as a staff ...
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John Stapleton (English Journalist)
John Martin Stapleton (born 24 February 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work as a presenter and reporter on ITV breakfast television (''TV-am'', ''GMTV'' and '' Daybreak'') in addition to hosting '' Nationwide'' and ''Watchdog'' for the BBC. He won the Royal Television Society's News Presenter of the Year award for 2003, and was married to the late presenter Lynn Faulds Wood. Together they presented ''Watchdog'' between 1985 and 1993. Early life Stapleton was born in Oldham, Lancashire. His father Frank was secretary of the local co-operative and his mother, June was a part-time primary school teacher. Stapleton was educated at Diggle, Greater Manchester, Diggle Primary School and Oldham Hulme Grammar School, Hulme Grammar School, Oldham and St John's College of Further Education, Manchester where he did "A" levels. He did not go to university, but started working as a trainee reporter at the age of seventeen on the now defunct Eccles, Grea ...
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John Stapleton (MP)
File:Hon. John Stapleton MP.JPG, From family photo album John Stapleton (11 April 1816 – 25 December 1891) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1852 and 1874. Stapleton was the fourth son of Thomas Stapleton, of Carlton Hill, Yorkshire, and his wife Maria Juliana Gerard, daughter of Sir Robert Gerard, bt. Stapleton was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Göttingen and Berlin. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1833, but later moved to the Middle Temple. He went on the Northern circuit.Robert Henry Mair,"An Alphabetical List of the Members of Parliament" ''Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench'', London: Dean & Son, 1870, p. 258. At the 1852 general election, Stapleton was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick upon Tweed but was unseated on petition. He was elected in 1857 but lost the seat in 1859. At the 1868 general election Stapleton was re-elected for Berwick and held the ...
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John Stapleton (fl
John Stapleton may refer to: *John Stapleton (Australian journalist) (born 1952), Australian journalist * John Stapleton (English journalist) (born 1946), English journalist and broadcaster *John Stapleton (MP) (1816–1891), English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1852 and 1874 * John Stapleton (fl.1406), MP for Midhurst (UK Parliament constituency) * John Stapleton (fl.1421), MP for Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency) * John Stapleton (playwright), collaborator in the adaptation of ''A Gentleman of Leisure ''A Gentleman of Leisure'' is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, ''The Gem Collector'', in the December 1909 issue of ''Ainslee's Magazine''. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a ...

Midhurst (UK Parliament Constituency)
Midhurst was a parliamentary borough in Sussex, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1311 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1885, when the constituency was abolished. Before the Great Reform Act of 1832, it was one of the most notorious of England's rotten boroughs. History From its foundation in the 14th century until 1832, the borough consisted of part of the parish of Midhurst, a small market town in Sussex. Much of the town as it existed by the 19th century was outside this ancient boundary, but the boundary was in any case academic since the townsfolk had no votes. As a contemporary, writer, Sir George Trevelyan explained in writing about the general election of 1768,G O Trevelyan, ''Life of Fox'', quoted by Porritt ''the right of election rested in a few small holdings, on which no human being resided, distinguished among the pastures and the stubble that surrounded them by a large stone set up on end in the middle of ea ...
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Shropshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Shropshire ( ''Salop'') was a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of the British House of Commons, House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was split into North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency), North Shropshire and South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency), South Shropshire in 1832. Boundaries The county limits. History Shropshire by the mid eighteenth century was seen as an independent county seat, controlled by the rank and file of the country gentry and tended to return Tory MPs despite the borough seats within Shropshire, and the dominant local Herbert family, Herbert and Baron Clive, Clive families, being Whigs (British political party), Whig.Pages 238 to 240,Lewis Namier, ''The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III'' (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 195 ...
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John Stapleton (playwright)
John Stapleton may refer to: *John Stapleton (Australian journalist) (born 1952), Australian journalist * John Stapleton (English journalist) (born 1946), English journalist and broadcaster *John Stapleton (MP) (1816–1891), English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1852 and 1874 * John Stapleton (fl.1406), MP for Midhurst (UK Parliament constituency) * John Stapleton (fl.1421), MP for Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency) * John Stapleton (playwright), collaborator in the adaptation of ''A Gentleman of Leisure ''A Gentleman of Leisure'' is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, ''The Gem Collector'', in the December 1909 issue of ''Ainslee's Magazine''. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a ...