24. Subsequently called the Vereinigten Studienstiftung der Universität Karlsruhe,
(the ‘United Study Foundation of the University of Karlsruhe’). See Chap. 7.
25. Kindly supplied to me by Professors Andrea Sella and Alwyn Davies, at UCL
by email, (May 2009).
26. Gregory Clark, What Were the British Earnings and Prices Then? (New Series),
Measuring Worth, (2014). https://measuringworth.com/ukearncpi/.
27. Over the years, two other visits followed. In 1969 he and the Earl and
Countess Howe were invited as guests of the Mayor of Philadelphia, and in
1982 Muspratt was in the Mayor’s official party on the QE2 following
William Penn’s journey across the Atlantic and up the Delaware river. On
each visit there was a programme of events; meetings, interviews, lectures and
dinner parties. He addressed the State legislature, visited the Senate and the
UN and made the most of every opportunity to advance his argument that
‘proved’ Penn was the Quaker’s ancestral home. Green, op. cit. (note 5).
28. From a letter in the Archives of the Trust written by Muspratt to the Charity
Commission on 01 September 1965. Kindly supplied to me by former
Chairman Christopher White.
29. Incidentally, Whitley-Jones, was involved in ‘Operation Mincemeat’ during
the second world war. Wishing to invade Italy via Sicily, the Allies needed to
convince the Germans that they would in fact do so via Sardinia and Greece.
To achieve this, a body was floated ashore in southern Spain, carrying papers
which identified him as one ‘Major Martin’ of the Royal Marines. By providing a letter for a financial demand (£79.19 s.2d) for the corpse
Whitley-Jones helped establish his identity. He wrote the letter himself and
typed it up on bank notepaper in his own office at Lloyds and personally
signed it. The corpse used was that of an unfortunate Welsh tramp, Glyndwr
Michael, from Aberbargoed in South Wales who died in London after
swallowing rat poison. From, Denis Smyth, Deathly Deception: The Real Story
of Operation Mincemeat, OUP, Oxford, (September 2011). ISBN-10
019960598X, ISBN-13 978-0199605989.
30. A description of Muspratt used by one of the parishioners on a visit I made to
Penn in 2012. Chap. 19.
31. Sourced and adapted from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A42760
and http://apenguinaweek.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/penguin-no-258-wildoats-by-eric.html.
32. The ‘Agreement’ from the Trusts archives was supplied to me by the former
Chairman, Christopher White.
33. A national British charity begun in 1897 by Elizabeth Finn and her daughter
to provide help and assistance to relieve the problems of old age, illness, social
isolation and disability. Today it is known as Elizabeth Finn Care, the term
‘gentlefolk’ being dropped as it was deemed too ‘Victorian’, suggesting
members of a particular ‘class’, the charity wishing to be seen as ‘classless’.
Today, the flatlets are managed by the Trustees on behalf of the local
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(the ‘United Study Foundation of the University of Karlsruhe’). See Chap. 7.
25. Kindly supplied to me by Professors Andrea Sella and Alwyn Davies, at UCL
by email, (May 2009).
26. Gregory Clark, What Were the British Earnings and Prices Then? (New Series),
Measuring Worth, (2014). https://measuringworth.com/ukearncpi/.
27. Over the years, two other visits followed. In 1969 he and the Earl and
Countess Howe were invited as guests of the Mayor of Philadelphia, and in
1982 Muspratt was in the Mayor’s official party on the QE2 following
William Penn’s journey across the Atlantic and up the Delaware river. On
each visit there was a programme of events; meetings, interviews, lectures and
dinner parties. He addressed the State legislature, visited the Senate and the
UN and made the most of every opportunity to advance his argument that
‘proved’ Penn was the Quaker’s ancestral home. Green, op. cit. (note 5).
28. From a letter in the Archives of the Trust written by Muspratt to the Charity
Commission on 01 September 1965. Kindly supplied to me by former
Chairman Christopher White.
29. Incidentally, Whitley-Jones, was involved in ‘Operation Mincemeat’ during
the second world war. Wishing to invade Italy via Sicily, the Allies needed to
convince the Germans that they would in fact do so via Sardinia and Greece.
To achieve this, a body was floated ashore in southern Spain, carrying papers
which identified him as one ‘Major Martin’ of the Royal Marines. By providing a letter for a financial demand (£79.19 s.2d) for the corpse
Whitley-Jones helped establish his identity. He wrote the letter himself and
typed it up on bank notepaper in his own office at Lloyds and personally
signed it. The corpse used was that of an unfortunate Welsh tramp, Glyndwr
Michael, from Aberbargoed in South Wales who died in London after
swallowing rat poison. From, Denis Smyth, Deathly Deception: The Real Story
of Operation Mincemeat, OUP, Oxford, (September 2011). ISBN-10
019960598X, ISBN-13 978-0199605989.
30. A description of Muspratt used by one of the parishioners on a visit I made to
Penn in 2012. Chap. 19.
31. Sourced and adapted from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A42760
and http://apenguinaweek.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/penguin-no-258-wildoats-by-eric.html.
32. The ‘Agreement’ from the Trusts archives was supplied to me by the former
Chairman, Christopher White.
33. A national British charity begun in 1897 by Elizabeth Finn and her daughter
to provide help and assistance to relieve the problems of old age, illness, social
isolation and disability. Today it is known as Elizabeth Finn Care, the term
‘gentlefolk’ being dropped as it was deemed too ‘Victorian’, suggesting
members of a particular ‘class’, the charity wishing to be seen as ‘classless’.
Today, the flatlets are managed by the Trustees on behalf of the local
498
D. Sheppard