John Stonehouse, My Father
Page 39
St Ermin’s Hotel, London 1
stamps 1, 2, 3
Stanley Gibbons 1
StB (Statni Bezpecnost, communist Czech secret services) activity in Czechoslovakia 1
agents in London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
alleged Edward Heath plot 1
file on JS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
JS alleged activities as an agent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
unable to contact JS 1, 2
see also ‘Affirm’; Frolik, Josef; Husak, Robert
Steed, Vic 1
Stevenson, Sam 1
Stewart-Smith, Geoffrey 1
Stirling, Colonel David 1
Stock Exchange 1
Stokes, Albert 1
Stonehouse, Barbara marriage to JS 1, 2, 3, 4 courtship 1, 2
love triangle with Sheila Buckley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
silver wedding party 1
divorce 1, 2
disappearance of JS, reaction to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
life insurance policies 1, 2
reunion with JS 1
in Australia with JS 1, 2
support for JS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
mental health 1
press interviews 1, 2, 3, 4 Daily Express deal 1, 2, 3
Islington house 1
Uganda 1, 2, 3
career 1, 2, 3
marriage to Dennis Flexney-Briscoe 1
Stonehouse, Bill (JS brother) 1, 2
Stonehouse, James (JS son) 1
Stonehouse, Jane (JS daughter) art 1 in Australia with JS 1, 2, 3, 4
campaign for JS release from prison 1, 2
childhood 1, 2, 3
diary entries 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
disappearance of JS, reaction to 1, 2, 3, 4
eulogy for JS 1
letters 1, 2
in Mauritius on behalf of JS 1
in StB file on JS 1
Stonehouse, John see also disappearance of JS; imprisonment of JS; spying allegations against JS; trial of JS and Sheila Buckley
Bangladesh, involvement with 1, 2, 3, 4 Bangladesh Fund 1
British Bangladesh Trust (BBT) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
bankruptcy 1, 2
beliefs 1 anti-colonialism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
anti-communism 1, 2, 3
anti-trade unionism 1, 2, 3
co-operative movement 1
justice system reform 1, 2
business interests 1, 2, 3, 4
childhood and teen years 1, 2
death 1
early career 1
fake news, victim of 1
fascist sympathies, accusations of 1
as a father 1, 2
finances 1, 2, 3, 4
health 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 medication dependency 1, 2
hobbies 1, 2, 3, 4
homosexuality rumour 1, 2
hostility and hatred towards 1
Islington house 1
journalism 1
life after imprisonment 1
mental health court discussions 1, 2, 3
depression and disillusionment 1, 2, 3
fake identities 1, 2, 3
Mandrax and Mogadon 1, 2, 3
nervous breakdown 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
select committee discussion 1
treatment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
violent outbursts 1, 2, 3, 4
personality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
political career constituency 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
criticism of British politics 1, 2, 3, 4
criticism of security services 1, 2
ministerial career 1, 2, 3, 4
parliamentary questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
relations with Labour Party after disappearance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
resignation as MP 1
resignation controversy 1, 2, 3
resignation from the Labour Party 1
statement in House of Commons 1
relationships Barbara, marriage to 1, 2, 3, 4 courtship 1, 2
divorce 1, 2
silver wedding party 1
extramarital affairs 1
love triangle with Barbara and Sheila 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sheila Buckley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–4
Southern Rhodesia, work in 1
Sylvester Okereke case 1
threats against and surveillance of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Uganda, work in 1
writing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Death of an Idealist 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n
Stonehouse, Julia (JS daughter) anecdotes about JS 1, 2, 3, 4 childhood 1, 2
disappearance of JS, reaction to 1, 2
eulogy for JS 1
JS in prison 1, 2, 3, 4
press harassment of 1
reunited with JS 1, 2
Sheila Buckley, relationship with 1
StB file on JS 1, 2, 3
threats against and surveillance of 1, 2
Tony Benn encounter 1
Uganda, living in 1, 2, 3
Stonehouse, Mathew (JS son) 1, 2 in Australia with JS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Stonehouse, Rosina ‘Rose’ (JS mother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 health 1, 2
Stonehouse, William (JS father) 1
Stott, Richard 1
Stowe, Ken 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Strauss, George 1
Streeter, Denis 1
strikes 1, 2, 3
Stross, Barnett 1
suicide 1, 2
Sullivan, John 1, 2
Sun, The 1, 2, 3, 4
Sunday Express 1, 2, 3
Sunday Mirror 1, 2
Sunday Times 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sweden 1
Sweeney, Christopher 1, 2, 3
Swiss Bank Corporation 1, 2
T
Taborsky, Vaclav 1
Tanganyika (later Tanzania) 1
Taverne, Dick 1
Thatcher, Margaret 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
theatre 1
Tilley, Barbara 1
Times, The 1, 2, 3 Bangladesh Fund 1, 2
JS spying allegations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Townley, DI 1
trade unions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
trial of JS and Sheila Buckley 1 appeal 1, 2
charges 1, 2, 3 life insurance policies 1
classified documents 1
conspiracy accusations against JS and Sheila Buckley 1, 2, 3, 4 trunk evidence 1
incarceration awaiting bail 1
JS criticism of legal system 1
JS mental health and medication dependency 1
JS dock statement 1–10
prejudice of judge and jury 1, 2, 3, 4
press coverage 1
Sheila Buckley 1, 2 Statement of Mitigation 1, 2
verdict and sentence 1, 2, 3, 4
Trudeau, Pierre 1, 2
trunk allegedly containing money of JS 1
trunk containing clothes of JS 1, 2, 3
TUC 1
Tucker, H.H. ‘Tommy’ 1
U
Uganda 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Uganda Consumers Wholesale Supply Co. Ltd. 1
United States 1, 2 interest in JS resignation 1, 2, 3
see also CIA
V
Vandon Court, London (Sheila Buckley residence) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
VC10 aeroplanes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Vincent, Ivor 1, 2
W
Walker, General Sir Walter 1
Walsall North, West Midlands 1, 2
Walter, Sir Harold 1
Ward, Ian 1, 2, 3, 4 trunk containing clothes 1, 2, 3
Watson, Andy 1
Waugh, Auberon 1, 2
Wednesbury, West Midlands 1, 2, 3, 4
West Midlands 1, 2
West Pakistan see Pakistan
Wetzel, Harry 1, 2
White, Sybil 1
Whiting, Charles 1
Whitlam, Gough 1, 2n, 3
Wigg, George 1n, 2, 3, 4
Wilcocks, Bob and Joan 1, 2
Wilson, Sir Harold 1n, 2, 3 reaction to JS spying allegations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 House of Commons statement 1, 2, 3
target for security services 1, 2 press involvement 1
Wilson Plot, The by David Leigh 1, 2, 3
Woman (magazine) 1, 2, 3
Women’s Co-operative Guild 1
Woodcraft Folk 1
Wormwood Scrubs Prison 1, 2, 3 hospital 1, 2
Wright, Peter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Y
Yellingbo, Australia 1, 2, 3
Young, George Kennedy 1, 2
Z
Zimbabwe see Southern Rhodesia
John’s parents, Rosina and William Stonehouse.
© Julia Stonehouse
John and Barbara in 1947.
© Julia Stonehouse
Meeting Ugandan farmers in 1952.
© Julia Stonehouse
Members of the Federation of Partnerships of Uganda African Farmers with George Shepherd (L) and John Stonehouse (R).
© Julia Stonehouse
Barbara working at BICC, Kampala, Uganda, 1953.
© Julia Stonehouse
Julia and Jane at Kampala Airport, 1954, after being photographed by one photographer from the colonial government’s Special Branch and about to be photographed by another.
© Julia Stonehouse
Barbara looking out of the window at 21 Alwyne Road with a policeman outside to protect against further vandalism, 6th March 1959.
Photo by John Twine. © ANL/Shutterstock
John arriving back from Rhodesia after being declared a prohibited immigrant, 13th March 1959.
© ANL/Shutterstock
Barbara at a demonstration in Whitehall to protest the killing of 52 Africans by colonial forces in Nyasaland (now Malawi), 1st April 1959.
Photo by Frank Apthorp. © ANL/Shutterstock
With fellow Labour and Co-operative MP Sydney Irving, to left, with constituents, 5th June 1958.
Photo by Gerald Pudsey. © Unknown
With Julius Nyerere, chief minister of Tanganyika, 5th September 1960. The following year Nyerere would become the first president of an independent Tanganyika (which became Tanzania in 1964).
© Julia Stonehouse
In 1960, with Tom Mboya, Kenya’s chief negotiator for independence from Britain and first minister of justice and constitutional affairs following independence in December 1963.
© Julia Stonehouse
In 1960, at the Botswana home of Seretse Khama, leader of the independence movement from Britain, and first president of Botswana from 1966.
© Julia Stonehouse
At a school fair in Wednesbury, 1959.
© Julia Stonehouse
Start of a ten-mile Mayor Charity Walk with Peter Archer MP and the Mayor of West Bromwich, Mrs L. Peckover, September 1968.
Photo by Birmingham Post and Mail Archive. © Mirrorpix
Marching against the closure of T. I. Stainless Steel in Walsall, 8th July 1972.
Image used courtesy of the Express & Star and Wolverhampton City Archives
Malta Labour Party demonstration demanding independence from Britain, Valletta, 1st May 1961.
© Julia Stonehouse
With Dom Mintoff, leader of the independence movement in Malta.
© Julia Stonehouse
Speaking at independence rally, Valletta, Malta, 1st May 1961.
© Julia Stonehouse
Outside a London Co-operative Society shop with staff and customers, 1963.
© Julia Stonehouse
With prime minister Harold Wilson, 1965.
Photo by Brian Worth. © Julia Stonehouse
Clockwise: John, Julia, Barbara, Mathew, Jane Stonehouse, 1965.
Photo by Godfrey Best. © Julia Stonehouse
European Airbus meeting with French and German representatives, Jean Chamant (L) and Johann Schöllhorn (R), London, 25th July 1967.
Photo by Keystone. © Getty images
With Jean Chamant, the French minister of transport, to discuss Bristol Siddeley (later Rolls Royce) Olympus 593 engines for Concorde, September 1967.
Photo by Maurice Tibbles. © Mirrorpix
After a test flight on the F-111 in Fort Worth, Texas, 13th October 1967.
Photo by Ferd Kaufman. © AP/Shutterstock
With HM Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of The Postal Museum, 19th February 1969.
© Royal Mail Group. Courtesy of The Postal Museum, 2021 (POST 118/18510)
Postmaster General, 15th May 1969.
© Royal Mail Group. Courtesy of The Postal Museum, 2020
Barbara and John being greeted by the chairman of the Greater London Council, Leslie Freeman, and his wife, County Hall, 24th July 1969.
© London Metropolitan Archives, City of London, 69/120/72F/2 CO
Playing cowboys with Mathew outside Faulkners Down House, 1971.
© Julia Stonehouse
With the extended family at Faulkners Down House, Christmas 1972. John bottom left with Julia behind, next to Beatrice, behind whom John’s sister Betty, Barbara to left, Rosina to far left.
© Julia Stonehouse
John and Barbara in 1973.
© Julia Stonehouse
Designer of the first set of stamps for Bangladesh, Biman Mullick, left, with Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury and John Stonehouse, 27th July 1971.
© Unknown
Viewing graves of victims of the 1971 war in Bangladesh, 1972.
© Julia Stonehouse
Barbara with Syed Abdus Sultan, the first Bangladesh high commissioner to Britain, between photos of Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury on left and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on right.
Photo by Brian Worth. © Julia Stonehouse
The bomb that destroyed my father’s car at a Heathrow Airport car park, 19th May 1974.
© Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo
Bomb explosion at the House of Commons, 17th June 1974.
© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Michael Cummings, Daily Express, 18th December 1974.
© Mirrorpix
Leaving Commonwealth Police Headquarters, Melbourne, 26th December 1974.
Photo by the AGE © Getty Images
First meeting of John and Barbara at detention centre, Melbourne, with Jim Patterson to the left of John, 27th December 1974.
© Daily Mail/Shutterstock
John in Melbourne pub opposite court, 1975.
© Unknown
John, Mathew, Jane and Barbara in Australia, 1975.
© Julia Stonehouse
John and Sheila in Australia, 1975.
© Julia Stonehouse
(Left to right) Sheila, Jane and Mathew at a press conference in Melbourne, 26th May 1975.
Photo by the AGE. © Getty images
With Jane, heading for the boarding gate and a London‑bound plane, just prior to arrest, at Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne, Australia, 10th June 1975.
© Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo
Barbara meeting Jane at Heathrow Airport, London, 11th June 1975, following John’s arrest at Melbourne Airport.
© ANL/Shutterstock
Heathrow Airport, arriving back from Australia under police escort, 18th July 1975.
© ANL/Shutterstock
Heathrow Airport, Sheila being led from the plane by police woman, 18th July 1975.
Photo by Jimmy Jarrett. © ANL/Shutterstock
John leaving Bow Street Magistrates’ Court in a prison van after being remanded into custody, 19th July 1975.
© ANL/Shutterstock
Barbara leaving Brixton Prison by a back door, 6th August 1975.
Photo by Bill Cross. © ANL/Shutterstock
After release from Brixton Prison on bail, 28th August 1975.
Photo by Hulton Deutsch. © Getty Images
Arriving at Kennington police station for daily signing as a condition of bail, 29th August 1975.
© Daily Mail/Shutterstock
Sitting alone at the Labour Party conference, Blackpool, 30th September 1975.
Photo by Graham Wood. © Getty images
Outside committal proceedings, 13th October 1975.
Photo by Graham Morris. © ANL/Shutterstock
Leaving the House of Commons after making his statement, 20th October 1975.
Photo by Ken Towner. © Evening News/Shutterstock
With solicitor Michael O’Dell at magistrates’ court for committal proceedings, 5th November 1975.
© Keystone Press / Alamy Stock Photo