George Burgess - Revision history

Jonathan at 15:17, 10 June 2022

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Jonathan at 16:36, 10 March 2021

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Jonathan: /* The Truth About the Vavasors */

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The Truth About the Vavasors

Jonathan: /* The Truth About the Vavasors */

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The Truth About the Vavasors

Jonathan at 16:24, 7 December 2020

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Jonathan at 15:54, 7 December 2020

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Jonathan at 10:30, 19 November 2020

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Jonathan: /* The Truth About the Vavasors */

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The Truth About the Vavasors

Jonathan at 08:37, 18 May 2020

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Jonathan at 08:37, 18 May 2020

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-In actual fact, the manuscript was acquired by [[Tom Winscombe]], along with the [[Vavasor Papers]], when Winscombe picked up the briefcase left by Burgess on a train shortly before his death. Winscombe subsequently handed the manuscript over to Burgess's agent, [[Diana Cheeseman]], in return for information about Burgess. The briefcase itself was destroyed, possibly along with the Vavasor Papers, in the explosion that concluded [[Tom Winscombe]]'s successful bid to free [[Dorothy Chan]] from the [[The Gretzky Family|Gretzky gang]].}}
+In actual fact, the manuscript was acquired by [[Tom Winscombe]], along with the [[Vavasor Papers]], when Winscombe picked up the briefcase left by Burgess on a train shortly before his death. Winscombe subsequently handed the manuscript over to Burgess's agent, [[Diana Cheeseman]], in return for information about Burgess. The briefcase itself was destroyed, possibly along with the Vavasor Papers, in the explosion that concluded [[Tom Winscombe]]'s successful bid to free [[Dorothy Chan]] from the [[The Gretzky Gang|Gretzky gang]].}}
 ==Early Career==
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 In fact, the reason why the Vavasor estate hired Burgess was somewhat complex. There had been a constant stream of books published on the Vavasor twins, by people such as [[Margot Evercreech]] and [[Dinsdale Mazloumian]], based on limited access to the Vavasor papers. The resulting speculation had caused little damage to the twins' reputation, because none of them - so far - had succeeded in disclosing the real secret at the heart of the story. However, it was only a matter of time before someone eventually uncovered the truth, so Isaac Vavasor decided to find someone completely incompetent, give them full access to the twins' papers, and hope that the resulting officially-endorsed biography would put paid to all the speculation.
-Burgess's name came into the frame because the expert that he had consulted on the Turin Shroud, [[Reverend Colin Fuchs]], had a sister called [[Cressida Fairbanks|Cressida]], who was married to the financier [[Rufus Fairbanks]], for whom Archie and Pye had both worked at one time, assisting him with complex schemes to launder money from his joint ventures with the [[The Gretzky Family|Belarusian mafia]]. Cressida had incidentally had an affair with each of the twins in turn, which was how Archie had ended up killing Pye. Ironically, this mess was, of course, the very truth that the Vavasor Estate were trying to hide. It was also how a copy of [[Shroud of Ecstasy]] had ended up in Archie's - and hence Isaac's - possession.
+Burgess's name came into the frame because the expert that he had consulted on the Turin Shroud, [[Reverend Colin Fuchs]], had a sister called [[Cressida Fairbanks|Cressida]], who was married to the financier [[Rufus Fairbanks]], for whom Archie and Pye had both worked at one time, assisting him with complex schemes to launder money from his joint ventures with the Belarusian mafia. Cressida had incidentally had an affair with each of the twins in turn, which was how Archie had ended up killing Pye. Ironically, this mess was, of course, the very truth that the Vavasor Estate were trying to hide. It was also how a copy of [[Shroud of Ecstasy]] had ended up in Archie's - and hence Isaac's - possession.
 In the event, Burgess did indeed misconstrue everything he had been given by Isaac Vavasor, but the particular tangent he chose to follow involved a completely wild and massively offensive theory of his own, that Archie and Pye had in fact been lovers. This was more than Isaac could stomach, and the project was abandoned.}}

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 {{#spoiler:show=Spoiler for THE TRUTH ABOUT ARCHIE AND PYE|
-In actual fact, the manuscript was acquired by [[Tom Winscombe]], along with the [[Vavasor papers]], when Winscombe picked up the briefcase left by Burgess on a train shortly before his death. Winscombe subsequently handed the manuscript over to Burgess's agent, [[Diana Cheeseman]], in return for information about Burgess. The briefcase itself was destroyed, possibly along with the Vavasor papers, in the explosion that concluded [[Tom Winscombe]]'s successful bid to free [[Dorothy Chan]] from the [[The Gretzky Family|Gretzky gang]].}}
+In actual fact, the manuscript was acquired by [[Tom Winscombe]], along with the [[Vavasor Papers]], when Winscombe picked up the briefcase left by Burgess on a train shortly before his death. Winscombe subsequently handed the manuscript over to Burgess's agent, [[Diana Cheeseman]], in return for information about Burgess. The briefcase itself was destroyed, possibly along with the Vavasor Papers, in the explosion that concluded [[Tom Winscombe]]'s successful bid to free [[Dorothy Chan]] from the [[The Gretzky Family|Gretzky gang]].}}
 ==Early Career==

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 ==''The Truth About the Vavasors''==
-Burgess was persuaded out of retirement by the prospect of writing the official biography of the [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Vavasor twins, Archie and Pye]]. Terms were agreed with [[Isaac Vavasor]], the twins' younger brother and a publisher was eventually found in the shape of the conspiracist imprint [[Head Wind]], run by the formidable [[Hilary van Beek]]. Burgess was granted full access to the [[Vavasor Papers]], including the Marginalia, and set to work. However, it seems that after he delivered the finished manuscript to Isaac Vavasor for final approval, Vavasor got cold feet and pulled the plug on the whole enterprise{{citation needed}}. This whole episode has raised many questions among the [[Vavasorology.com|Vavasorologist]] community, such as why Burgess was hired in the first place, and what he found in the papers, and it is unlikely that the truth of what really happened will ever come out.
+Burgess was persuaded out of retirement by the prospect of writing the official biography of the [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Vavasor twins, Archie and Pye]]. Terms were agreed with [[Isaac Vavasor]], the twins' younger brother and a publisher was eventually found in the shape of the conspiracist imprint [[Head Wind]], run by the formidable [[Hilary van Beek]]. Burgess was granted full access to the [[Vavasor Papers|Vavasor papers]], including the Marginalia, and set to work. However, it seems that after he delivered the finished manuscript to Isaac Vavasor for final approval, Vavasor got cold feet and pulled the plug on the whole enterprise{{citation needed}}. This whole episode has raised many questions among the [[Vavasorology.com|Vavasorologist]] community, such as why Burgess was hired in the first place, and what he found in the papers, and it is unlikely that the truth of what really happened will ever come out.
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 ==''The Truth About the Vavasors''==
-Burgess was persuaded out of retirement by the prospect of writing the official biography of the [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Vavasor twins, Archie and Pye]]. Terms were agreed with [[Isaac Vavasor]], the twins' younger brother and a publisher was eventually found in the shape of the conspiracist imprint [[Head Wind]], run by the formidable [[Hilary van Beek]]. Burgess was granted full access to the [[Vavasor papers]], including the Marginalia, and set to work. However, it seems that after he delivered the finished manuscript to Isaac Vavasor for final approval, Vavasor got cold feet and pulled the plug on the whole enterprise{{citation needed}}. This whole episode has raised many questions among the [[Vavasorology.com|Vavasorologist]] community, such as why Burgess was hired in the first place, and what he found in the papers, and it is unlikely that the truth of what really happened will ever come out.
+Burgess was persuaded out of retirement by the prospect of writing the official biography of the [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor|Vavasor twins, Archie and Pye]]. Terms were agreed with [[Isaac Vavasor]], the twins' younger brother and a publisher was eventually found in the shape of the conspiracist imprint [[Head Wind]], run by the formidable [[Hilary van Beek]]. Burgess was granted full access to the [[Vavasor Papers]], including the Marginalia, and set to work. However, it seems that after he delivered the finished manuscript to Isaac Vavasor for final approval, Vavasor got cold feet and pulled the plug on the whole enterprise{{citation needed}}. This whole episode has raised many questions among the [[Vavasorology.com|Vavasorologist]] community, such as why Burgess was hired in the first place, and what he found in the papers, and it is unlikely that the truth of what really happened will ever come out.
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 '''George Burgess''' was a Swindon-based writer of indifferent ability whose primary claim to fame was as the putative biographer of [[Archimedes and Pythagoras Vavasor]]. However, he died before the project was complete and the current whereabouts of the unfinished manuscript are uncertain.

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 {{#spoiler:show=Spoiler for THE TRUTH ABOUT ARCHIE AND PYE|
-In actual fact, the manuscript was acquired [[Tom Winscombe]], along with the [[Vavasor papers]], when Winscombe picked up the briefcase left by Burgess on a train shortly before his death. Winscombe subsequently handed the manuscript over to Burgess's agent, [[Diana Cheeseman]], in return for information about Burgess. The briefcase itself was destroyed, possibly along with the Vavasor papers, in the explosion that concluded [[Tom Winscombe]]'s successful bid to free [[Dorothy Chan]] from the [[Gretzky gang]].}}
+In actual fact, the manuscript was acquired by [[Tom Winscombe]], along with the [[Vavasor papers]], when Winscombe picked up the briefcase left by Burgess on a train shortly before his death. Winscombe subsequently handed the manuscript over to Burgess's agent, [[Diana Cheeseman]], in return for information about Burgess. The briefcase itself was destroyed, possibly along with the Vavasor papers, in the explosion that concluded [[Tom Winscombe]]'s successful bid to free [[Dorothy Chan]] from the [[Gretzky gang]].}}
 ==Early Career==