Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Forensic Findings: Harpal Rafal Mankoo's (a.k.a. Rafal Heydel-Mankoo) former geocities biography as Rafal Mankoo (textual version)

http://web.archive.org/web/20020204023750/http://www.geocities.com/rafalhm/me.html

Rafal Heydel-Mankoo


I was born and raised in London, England. My father, Anthony Mankoo, was the son of an industrial family. He moved to London in 1961. My mother, nee Baroness Maria Heydel, moved to London in 1968. They were married on March 7th 1970 in a Roman Catholic Rite at Ealing Abbey (Benedictine). I was Christened in the Abbey on July 17th 1976. My godparents were Baron Jan Heydel, Andrzej Laczynski and Elzbieta Laczynska.

In London my primary "stomping grounds" were Ealing and South Kensington. I received my primary education in London before emigrating to Ottawa, Canada. My secondary school education was completed in Canada. Receiving a full scholarship to attend the University of Ottawa I went on to complete a B.A. (Hons.) in history (magna cum laude). I was subsequently accepted in to the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa (LL.B.). and graduated in 2001. I am currently completing a Master's degree (M.A.) in history at the University of Toronto and am a graduate resident at the University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto.

A brief biography of my mother can be found here.
Brief biographies of me can be found here and also here.


Membership:

It is often said that one can tell a man from the company he keeps.
I am a member of the following organisations:

Royal Stuart Society -- (Jacobite Society)
Monarchist League of Canada -- Ottawa Branch Chairman
Monarchist League (in Britain)
Royal Commonwealth Society
International Churchill Society -- (Churchillian Society)
The Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy
English Speaking Union
Heraldry Society of Canada -- On the Board of National Directors.

Media Appearances:

Click here for a list of my media-related appearances.

To listen to my October 17th interview on CBC Radio's national "As It Happens" programme discussing the proposal to rename King Edward Avenue after former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, click here.

Articles:

Herein a varied selection of my writings:

The Ottawa Coat of Arms Debacle. 2000.

Victory! Ottawa Retains the Crown in its Coat of Arms. 2001

The 2001 Visit to Ottawa of HRH The Prince of Wales. 2001

The 1995 visit to Ottawa of HRH The Prince of Wales. 1995.

The Regulation of Obscenity on the Internet. 2001.

My address to the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords. Church House, Westminster. July 1999. (not a very good speech--indeed rather poor actually--but when battling the flu and speaking 'off the cuff' inspiring oratory can be rather difficult!)

Articles and essays on this web page (some may require downloading):
(Caveat: Many of these papers were written whilst I was in my 'teenage' years. I have not edited them for style, grammar or content. It is expected that readers will bear this in mind.)

Glimpses: Count Xavier Puslowski and Sir Winston Churchill 1998.
(This article first appeared in FINEST HOUR: Journal of the Churchill Centre and Societies)

The Provincial Crown: Sir Oliver Mowat and the Dispute Over the Status of Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor as the Queen's Provincial Representative. 1993.

Bourgeois Barons: The Relationship between the French Nobility and Bourgoisie in the Latter-half of the Eighteenth Century. 1994

"Britain's Greece to America's Rome": An Analysis of Anglo-American Negotiations with Pius XII over the Bombing of Rome. 1995

The Toothless Lion: Winston Churchill and the Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1939-1945. 1994

The Muscovite Dynastic Crisis of the 1490s: An Analysis and Re-evaluation. 1995

Tadeusz Kosciuszko: A Forgotten American Hero. 1995

The Impact of London on the Economy of Provincial England During the Seventeenth Century. 1993

The Role of Public Transport in the Development of Suburban London, 1900-1939. 1994

Selection of my "Letters to the Editor"

26 December 2000: Coat of Arms for New City Embarrassing.

16 January 2001: Many People Do Care About a Proper City Coat of Arms.

30 January 2001: Coat of Arms Victory Shows Power of the Public.


Selection of my pieces in "Finest Hour: Journal of the Churchill Centre."

Isaiah Berlin, RIP. Finest Hour, vol. 96.

Churchill Art at Sotheby's. Finest Hour, vol. 97.

Sir George Kennard, Bt., RIP. Finest Hour, vol. 105.

Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill, RIP. Finest Hour, vol. 109.

Major-General Henry Anthony Lascelles, RIP. Finest Hour, vol. 109.