Francis Shackleton

[user100]

Anything new in this? Or just confirmation of what was believed?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 193142.ece

[Steve Grindlay]

Thanks for drawing our attention to that, user100, although I don't think it adds anything to what was already known. I originally wrote <this article> some 15 years ago, and believe it is still substantially correct, although perhaps it could do with up-dating.

[user100]

Interesting that there is nothing substantially new since you wrote that 15 years ago.

He certainly sounds like he was a frightful bounder

Wonder where those jewels could be - maybe buried in Trewsbury Road allotments ......