Case file
Loan 96 RLF 1/1447
Mr James Hitchman (also known as Percy Vernon Gordon De Montgomery, or Viscount De Montgomery)
Mr James Hitchman
Applications
2 (0 successful)
Date period
1852-10 May 1879
Awards
- 1 Jul 1857 (rejected)
- 9 Sep 1858 (rejected)
Other author name(s)
(aka) Viscount De Montgomery
(aka) Percy Vernon Gordon De Montgomery
Author's career
- Swindler
Author's works published
Poetry
Also named in file
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Timeline
1857
Application Form, James Hitchman – endorsed by John Tovey and Charles Baker Strutt
1 Jul 1857
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James Hitchman to the Committee of the Literary Fund
1 Jul 1857
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William Henry Sykes to Octavian Blewitt
30 May 1857
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William Henry Sykes to Octavian Blewitt
13 Jun 1857
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John Tovey to the Committee of the Literary Fund
1 Jul 1857
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Octavian Blewitt to James Hitchman
23 Jul 1857
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1858
James Hitchman, writing as Viscount De Montgomery, to the Committee of the Literary Fund
9 Sep 1858
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1871
‘One Thousand Pound Reward’ – sixty page pamphlet compiled by W R Evans on the fraudulent activities of James Hitchman
1871
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1852
Memorandum by Octavian Blewitt, interspersed with clippings from The Times and the Morning Post, detailing early attempts to defraud by James Hitchman
1852-21 Aug 1856
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1871
Press cuttings – ten sides of cuttings from the Bookseller, the Times, the Standard and the Athenaeum on the activities of James Hitchman in the 1870s, including trial reports and details of the ‘Lady Scott Swindle’
1 May 1871-10 May 1879
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