Two hundred and odd years ago, (at about the same time that Napoleon Bonaparte was bundled onto a Royal Navy frigate and carried off to St Helena), Lady Agatha Shagg, the large-bosomed heiress to the legendary Shagg Mine diamond pit in South East Africa, was married off to Lord Humphrey Pyle, a somewhat eccentric Earl who owned much of the bottom part of Yorkshire.Â
This illustrious union created the Shagg-Pyle dynasty which subsequently went on to wreak havoc throughout the British Empire from Simla to Quebec.Â
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The family's most notable scion was almost certainly the erstwhile explorer Colonel Lord Horatio Shagg-Pyle who, having been kicked in the pharaohs by his former chum, Lord Caernarfon, subsequently devoted his life (when he wasn't having a stiff one on the terrace of Little Hope Manor) to the search for the long-lost Shagg Mine which had fallen into the hands of a rather ruthless local chieftain in 1875 and had subsequently been reclaimed by the jungle and had disappeared from every atlas on the planet...
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