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Edward Davenport (fraudster)
Edward Ormus Sharrington Davenport (born 11 July 1966) is a convicted English fraudster and property developer.
The self-styled Lord,〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Self-styled 'peer' Edward Davenport jailed for £4.5m con )〕 nicknamed "Fast Eddie"〔 came to prominence in the late 1980s as the organiser of the controversial Gatecrasher Balls for wealthy teenagers. After being convicted of tax offences in 1990, he started on a second career as a property developer. He claimed to have acquired a substantial fortune〔 but also attracted controversy for his business practices such as the way he acquired the former High Commission building of Sierra Leone in London, during the country's civil war. From 2005 to 2009 he was the "ringmaster" of a series of advance-fee fraud schemes that defrauded dozens of individuals out of millions of pounds.〔 He was arrested and charged in December 2009 and was convicted in September 2011 along with five other defendants, receiving a jail sentence of seven years and eight months.〔 He is said to have made £34.5 million through his various frauds.
==Early life==
Davenport was born in Kensington, London to Dublin born〔http://www.ukroots.com/getperson.php?personID=I10196&tree=Tree〕 Ormus Neville Talbot Davenport (13 November 1904 – 17 December 2002),〔http://s3.amazonaws.com/historypie_devel/class/files/902/original/worfield%20graves%202,16918,0.pdf〕 a wealthy restaurateur, and his second wife, Hendon born Jean (née Gorrie). His half brother from his father's first marriage, John Geoffrey Davenport, was a banker and director of the cargo airliner MK Airlines from 1992 to 2003. He grew up in Fulham and educated at Frensham Heights School, Surrey, and Mander Portman Woodward, a South Kensington crammer.〔 At the age of 15 he began selling clothes on Portobello Road before making a career organising parties, first at his home and later in nightclubs.〔
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