Reasons Many and Various

Nash, Michael L.

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Reasons Many and Various

Michael L. Nash²

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In this final “Catch-All” chapter, Nash covers many cases which do not fall into the previous categories, although some fall into two.

This multiplicity of reasons include medical research (Sir Mark Sykes); political reasons (Sir Roger Casement, Rudolf Hess, and the proposed exhumation of General Franco); the result of pressure groups (Edith Thompson); removal to escape obliteration of the past (Eva Peron); applications to the court for establishment of relationship by DNA samples (Salvador Dali); new grave robbing or the trade in human organs (Miguel Angel Martinez); to establish guilt or innocence (Eric McKenna).

Political scandals are covered: the exhumations of the Polish President Zacynski and ninety-five others; three Presidents of the United States; the political and historical claims of other states (Matthew Flinders) and many other examples of necro-politics.

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Notes

1.
Shane, Leslie, Mark Sykes: His Life and Letters, New York (1923), p. 6.
2.
Herbert, Aubrey, A Tribute Given to Sykes at His Memorial Service, SRO/HP DD/HER/53.
3.
Sykes, Christopher Simon, Sir, The Man Who Created the Middle East (2016).
4.
Townsend, Charles, When God made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921, p. 236; and Kedourie, E., England and the Middle East, Chapter 3, and Townsend, p. 267.
5.
Re St Mary Sledmere, York Consistory Court, 3 All E R, 75.
6.
(1958) 1 All ER 394n.; (1958), 1 WLR 309 Consistory Court nd Re St Nicholas, Sevenoaks.
7.
(2005), 1 WLR 1011.
8.
See article in Royalty Digest Quarterly by Charlotte Zeepvat, Thirteenth Grandchild of Queen Victoria?
9.
Dudgeon, Jeffrey, The Black Diaries, 3rd edition (2018).
10.
Yeatman, R.J., and Sellar, W.C., 1066 and All That (1930), Methuen (2005).
11.
Dudgeon, op. cit., says this (my italics), “As, Who Knows, a Final Burial in Murlough May Yet Happen.” It may also be significant that the Mass took place on March 1st, St David’s Day. David was one of Casement’s names which he used; and also because his first Catholic baptism took place in Wales, when he was a child, arranged probably by his Catholic mother.
12.
Schillinger, Liesel: Traitor, Martyr, Liberator. New York Times, June 22, 2012.
13.
Dudgeon, op. cit., Chapter Diaries and Death, p. 140.
14.
Sawyer (1984), p. 1.
15.
Ibid., p. 92, n.
16.
Ibid., pp. 142–3.
17.
Professor Rene Weis took medical opinion on this, and it is uncertain where the truth lies.
18.
Clarke, John (online article), retrieved February 20, 2019.
19.
Rose, Andrew, The Prince, The Princess, and the Perfect Murder (2013), Coronet.
20.
Ibid., p. 133.
21.
Ibid., p. 247.
22.
Ibid., p. 249.
23.
Ibid., p. 181.
24.
Ibid., p. 254.
25.
Conyers Nesbit, Roy, Rudolf Hess: Myths and Reality (1999), Sutton.
26.
McBlain, John, Rudolf Hess: The British Conspiracy.
27.
Nash, Michael L., A King for Poland, Royalty Digest.
28.
They were a prolific family, both in numbers and talent, who had produced the famous art historian, Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897); the sculptor Carl Burckhardt (1878–1923); the film maker, Rudy Burckhardt (1914–1999); and some very eminent surgeons and psychiatrists, such as Johann Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), and Orientalists, such as Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984) and the author Andreas Burckhardt, who was not only a leader of the International Red Cross, but a spy as well.
29.
Von Hassell, Ulrich, Diaries, quoted in John Harris’s book on Hess.
30.
See also article in Daily Telegraph, October 25, 2010.
31.
See Fleming, G. B., Juana I. (2018) Palgrave Macmillan. Juana, Queen of Castile, fated to become Juana la Loca, is one of them.
32.
Ortiz, Alicia Dujovne, Eva Peron (1997), p. 64, n. 33.
33.
Ibid., pp. 319 et seq.
34.
Ibid., p. 347.
35.
Ibid., pp. 348–9.
36.
Ibid., pp 371–2.
37.
Keeley, Graham, Report in the Times, November 19, 2018.
38.
Ibid.
39.
Medrano, Ricardo Javier Mateos Sainz de, September 1, 2018.
40.
Jones, Sam: report in the Guardian, A Surreal Sight: Dali’s Moustache Is Still in Place, Says Embalmer after Exhumation (2018).
41.
Ades, Dawn, Dali (1995, reprint 2002), Thames & Hudson.
42.
Simpson, John, Crime correspondent, The Times, August 4,2018.
43.
Burgess, Kaya, Religious Affairs correspondent, The Times, February 19, 2019.
44.
CBS News, 12 November 2016.
45.
Smolensk Crash, News Digest, May18, 2018.
46.
McIntyre, Ben, The Times, April 13, 2010.
47.
Faussetmarch, Richard, New York Times, March 24, 2017.
48.
Merry, Robert J., A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (2009), Simon & Schuster, p. 469.
49.
Hamilton Smith, The Interpretation of the Arsenic Content of Human Hair. Journal of the Forensic Science Society, Vol. 4, summarized by Stan Forshufvud & Ben Weider: Assassination at St. Helena (Napoleon) Vancouver, Canada, Mitchell Press (1978).
50.
Parenti, Michael, The Strange Death of Zachary Taylor: A Case Study in the Manufacture of Mainstream History. New Political Science 20 (2), pp. 141–58.
51.
Willard & Marion, Killing the President (2010) o, 189.
52.
Sanders, Gerald, Abraham Lincoln Fact Book, p. 61.
53.
Kundardt, Dorothy Meserve, Life Magazine, February 15, 1963; Lewis, Lloyd, The Assassination of Lincoln: History and Myth; Craughwell, Thomas, Stealing Lincoln’s Body (2007); chapter 8, pp. 181–97; all of this put together by Norton, R.J.
54.
Montefiore, Simon Sebag, The Life of Potemkin (2000).
55.
Lovejoy, Bess, Rest in Pieces (2013), op. cit.
56.
Porter, Horace, The Recovery of the Body of John Paul Jones, in “Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy,” Augustus C. Buell, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons (1906), pp. 335–62.
57.
Lovejoy, Bess, op. cit., pp. 171–179.
58.
The French ambassador appeared on the banks of the Potomac totally naked but wearing gloves. When the President enquired the reason for the gloves, the ambassador replied: “Mais, M. le President, we may meet ladies!”.
59.
Living with Mandela: and his book, Going to the Mountain, Hutchinson (2018).

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Nash, M.L. (2019). Reasons Many and Various. In: The History and Politics of Exhumation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24047-9_10

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