“SIR” FOR £40,000.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1922, Page 5

“SIR” FOR £40,000.

HONOURS-SELLING AGENT. DUKE’S ALLEGATIONS. London. Sept. 5. How Harry Shaw, an undischarged bankrupt, after a chequered career, which included two bankruptcies achieved political notoriety, is revealed by the London Star. The story is a sequel to the Duke of Northumberland’s so-called disclosure of Shaw’* attempts to sell honours. Shaw the duke stated, approached two men and offered to obtain baronetcies for them at £40.000 each. Mr. Lloyd George and the Coalition Whins asserted that they had never heard of Shaw. The latter did not deny the charge. Though willing to appear before the commission of inquiry, and apparently pleased at being in the limelight, he resented the suggestion that he was not the sort of person likely to be entrusted with such delicate negotiations. “I’m a man of substance." he told the interviewer. and then left London for his Scottish estate. The Star gives Shaw’s history as comnanv director, cattle breeder, motor salesman, estate agent, and consulting engineer. Lately he has lived a country gentleman’s life. He was announced in 1921 as the purchaser of the historic Stowe House, for which he paid £50,000, and which he offered as a gift to the nation. Shaw paid a dividend of 6d in the £ when made bankrupt in 1904. and 3d in the £ in 1913. He had previously lived on credit in imposing style as the tenant of Lord Raglan’s estate at Usk. His liabilities were £36.000.