About the Book: Man Who Sold Honours: The First Modern Cash for Honours Scandal
Paying for a peerage-an illegal practice-feels like a very modern form of
corruption, one that both the Labour and Conservative parties have been accused
of indulging in at times during the early twenty-first century. Except, of
course, it was happening almost a century ago.
Meet Maundy Gregory, actor, journalist, publishing proprietor, conman,
embezzler, MI5 spy-and the man you went to see if you had the money to pay for a
peerage in the post-First World War years.
Cutting a dash across high society of the 1920s-he was