Trebitsch Lincoln
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln (1879-1943) is hard to describe. Born in Hungary to an Orthodox Jewish family. He was during his lifetime
- a Presbyterian missionary to Jews in Canada
- an Anglican curate in Appledore, Kent
- worked for Benjamin Rowntree
- a Member of Parliament for Darlington, County Durham, England in 1910
- arrested in the United States at the request of Great Britain for forgery
- involved in the 1920 Kapp Putsch
- involved in the Chinese civil wars of the 1920s
- became a Buddhist monk in 1925 and took the name Chao Kung and died as a Buddhist Abbott
[edit] Sources
The Treacherous Mr. Trebisch by Eliza Segal
On the Trail of Trebitsch Lincoln, Triple Agent
Books of The Times; On Clear Duplicity and Doubtful Consequences by John Gross, May 17, 1988
He was an author, fraudster, MP, fantasist, charmer ... but he did not go to Belmarsh by Matthew Paris, July 28, 2003
[edit] Bibliography
Wasserstein, Bernard (1988). The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300040768.
| Preceded by Herbert Pease |
Member of Parliament for Darlington January 1910–December 1910 |
Succeeded by Herbert Pease |
