Talk:Jabez Balfour

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--Antithief 19:52, 2 August 2006 (UTC) I believe that the entire content of this article has been plagarised from various sources.(And is probably a copyright violation as well)

The entire 'Scandal' section has been constructed from sentences ripped out of the review of McKie's book written by Kathryn Hughes for the Guardian; see http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1172798,00.html

The fourth paragraph of the 'Escape and Capture' section includes the text;

He embarked upon a new career as a journalist, writing a series of prison memoirs that fronted the Weekly Dispatch for 26 consecutive weeks. Later, he became a mining engineer; at the age of 71, Balfour took a post in Burma, but was ordered back to London on the grounds that he would not survive in such heat. He returned to a bitter winter, which probably killed him. He died in February 1916 of a heart attack on a train taking him to south Wales to begin a new job at Morriston Colliery.

Which is strangely reminiscent of page p65 of Great Parliamentary Scandals by Matthew Paris and Kevin Maguire (revised edition 2001, Chrysalis Books) which reads

...Jabez began a new career as a journalist, writing a series of prison memoirs that led page one of Lord Northcliffe's the Weekly Dispatch for 26 consecutive weeks. Later, he set up as a mining engineer. Later still, at the at the age of 71, he became a mining engineer. Jabez took a post in Burma, but was ordered back to London on the grounds that he might not survive such heat. He returned to a bitter British winter, that probably killed him. Jabez died in February 1916 on a train which was taking him, at 72 to South Wales to begin a new job at Morriston Colliery.

I suspect that the rest of the article has similarly been constructed by copying and pasting from undisclosed sources