The antihero of House of Cards is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart played by Ian Richardson.

Mattie, while talented, is naïve and apparently somewhat unstable ; she has an apparent electra complex and declares that she will only refer to Urquhart as ' Daddy ', a word that later figures prominently in Urquhart's painful flashbacks of her.

With the help of his underling, Tim Stamper, Urquhart goes about making sure his competitors drop out of the race: Peter MacKenzie, secretary of health, accidentally runs his car over a protester at a demonstration staged by Urquhart and is forced to withdraw by the public outcry, while Harold Earle, secretary for education, is blackmailed into withdrawing when Urquhart anonymously sends pictures of him in the company of a rentboy he had paid for sex.

When the tape is sent to Woolton, he is led to assume that Samuels is behind the scheme and backs Urquhart in the contest.

Urquhart also receives support from Collingridge, who is unaware of Urquhart's role in his own downfall.

The story ends with Mattie Storin looking for Urquhart at the point when it looks like his victory is certain.

In the TV series, it is Urquhart who throws Mattie off the roof, onto a van parked below.

* Urquhart never speaks directly to the reader ; the character is written solely in a third-person perspective.

* When alone, Urquhart is much less self-assured and decisive.

Family Matters is a consideration of the difficulties that come with aging, which Mistry returned to in 2008 with the short fiction The Scream ( published as a separate volume, in support of World Literacy of Canada, with illustrations by Tony Urquhart ).

Beverly is home to several private schools, including St. Mary School, Harborlight Montessori School, Kindercare Learning Center, Beverly School for the Deaf, St. John the Evangelist School, the Bright Horizons School, the Waring School, Glen Urquhart School, Stoneridge Montessori School, and Shore Country Day, which is known for being a top private school for upper class children K-8 and several others.

The assassination of McGee is also a major component of Away, a novel about Irish immigration to Canada by Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart. McGee funeral procession in 1868

The area is the home of Francis Urquhart in Michael Dobbs's 1989 novel, House of Cards.

The closest Champion Section Brass Band is the Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band, formerly of the Yorkshire Imperial Copperworks based in Stourton, from which the band is named.

Wimsey's friend, Detective Inspector Charles Parker, conclusively disproves this notion, but Wimsey has planted a spy, Miss Joan Murchison, in Urquhart ’ s office and discovers the real culprit is Urquhart.

Francis Urquhart MP, the Chief Whip of the House of Commons, introduces viewers to the contestants, from which the popular and decent Henry Collingridge emerges victorious.

Urquhart resolves to oust Collingridge, with encouragement from his wife, Elizabeth.

Later, Urquhart blames Party Chairman Lord Billsborough for the leak of an internal poll showing a drop in Tory numbers, leading Collingridge to sack him.

Though initially blind to the truth of matters thanks to her relations with Urquhart, Mattie eventually deduces that Urquhart and his associates are behind the unfortunate downfalls of Collingridge and all of Urquhart's rivals.

Urquhart left and was replaced by Jim Fuyarchuck, who re-installed the feel-good factor at the Hive ( Nickname of the Bees home, the John Nike Leisuresport Complex ) Bees again finished third in the first division ( No longer sponsored by Heineken ) but this time, they missed out to Milton Keynes Kings in the promotion play-offs.

Browning dismissed his claims and ordered the division's senior medical officer to send Urquhart on sick leave on account of ' nervous strain and exhaustion.

Colonel Graeme Warrack — the senior medical officer — asked permission to arrange a truce ; it was a request that Urquhart agreed to.

Not only does the will name Boyes as the principal heir, but in Urquhart's office, Miss Murchison finds evidence that, misusing his position as his own family's solicitor, Urquhart embezzled the majority of the great aunt's holdings and subsequently lost them on the stock market.

The battle gave Urquhart the opportunity to escape his position and he was able to return to Division HQ at the Hotel Hartenstein in Oosterbeek, where for the first time he was able to learn the extent of the German forces facing them.

Despite these early attacks on his position, Buchan significantly strengthened his territorial position especially in the Great Glen where he retained Urquhart after his brother's death and then in the autumn of 1386 he gained the lands of Bona at the head of Loch Ness from the Earl of Moray and the adjoining lands in Abriachin from Sir Robert Chisholm.

The action of the United Kingdom in the Crimean War provoked indignant protests from Urquhart, who contended that Turkey was in a position to fight her own battles without the assistance of other powers.

It appears Michael Dobbs did not envisage writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel.

Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.

Urquhart frequently talks through the camera to the audience, breaking the fourth wall like a Shakespearian soliloquy.

After the general election, which the party wins by a reduced majority, Urquhart makes his suggestions for a cabinet reshuffle.

At the same time — with his wife's blessing — Urquhart begins an affair with the junior political reporter, Mattie Storin.

Urquhart recruits the party's public relations consultant, Roger O ' Neill, by blackmailing him about his cocaine addiction.

Meanwhile, Urquhart encourages ultraconservative Foreign Secretary Patrick Woolton and newspaper tycoon Benjamin Landless to support Collingridge's removal.

Finally, Urquhart poses as Collingridge's alcoholic brother Charles in order to trade in a chemical company about to benefit from the government.

After Collingridge's resignation, Urquhart — in imitation of Shakespeare's Richard of Gloucester — at first feigns unwillingness to stand before announcing his candidacy.

The first ballot leaves Urquhart to face Samuels and Woolton.

He eliminates Woolton by a prolonged scheme: At the party conferences, Urquhart pressures O ' Neill into persuading his personal assistant and lover, Penny Guy, to have sex with Woolton in his suite, with the encounter recorded through a bugged ministerial red box.

Urquhart mixes O ' Neill's cocaine with rat poison, causing him to kill himself when taking the cocaine in a motorway lavatory.

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

The Torah's Joseph narrative, at a stage when Joseph is unrecognised by his brothers, describes Joseph as testing whether his brothers have reformed, by secretly planting a silver cup in Benjamin's bag, then publicly searching the bags for it, and after finding it in Benjamin's possession, demanding that Benjamin become his slave as a punishment.

The Baron, Duke Leto, and Jessica herself are unaware that Jessica is secretly the Baron's daughter or that he has even fathered one ; in the year 10, 176, the Baron's grandson Paul is born to Leto and Jessica.

One such fatal poison is secretly administered by the Harkonnens to Thufir Hawat, the Mentat of House Atreides, in order to keep Hawat's allegiance as the only provider of the antidote ( in the 1984 movie version, it is shown that Hawat has to milk a gruesome captive cat for the antidote every day ).

While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.

: Made in 1974, Carry On Dick, of the celebrated Carry On series of films, followed the same premise of a country vicar ( Sid James ) who is secretly an outlaw, in this case the highwayman Dick Turpin.

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.

While Iran is helping to develop the Afghan Shia communities, the NATO officials have been accusing Iran of secretly arming and training the Taliban insurgents.

Scarlett is secretly scornful of Melanie Wilkes, wife to Ashley, who shows nothing but love and devotion towards Scarlett, and considers her a sister throughout her life because Scarlett married Melanie's brother Charles.

Unknown to Scarlett, Frank is secretly involved in the Ku Klux Klan.

The entire population of Home is secretly destroyed as a consequence of Brennan's and Truesdale's war with the Pak — Brennan turns the entire population into human Protectors to create an army to fight the Pak invaders.

When deputy Violet Lantern Wonder Woman uses her magical lasso to restrain Luthor, under its spell of truth, Luthor is forced to confess that he secretly wants to be Superman.

Once he has established his preeminence in Metropolis, Luthor takes vengeance on Griggs, secretly hiring him to assassinate Frank Berkowitz, the city's popular four-term mayor, who refuses to knuckle under to Luthor's dominance, then personally killing him once the deed is done.

However, he is secretly a ruthless and power-hungry individual involved in many criminal enterprises and obsessed with defeating and killing Superman and plotting to turn the public against him.

All the action is usually done secretly and it is an individual's choice whether to give a hint of their identity or stay anonymous.

* Rufus " Super Midnight " Carter is an African-American kickboxing champion and antiques dealer who secretly works for the CIA.

They secretly leave the ear of corn on the windowsill, where it is discovered by the parents, and return home on the Catbus.

Since 1960, the U. S. and Japan have maintained an agreement that allows the U. S. to secretly bring nuclear weapons into Japanese ports, and there is speculation ( see below ) that some nuclear weapons may be located in Okinawa.

* " SuperXtreme Alphacosmos Police Case EX Ultra " – Magil is a space cop searching for Lynx, secretly a green Martian creature with tentacles.

( Genesis 5: 1-18 ) In Deuteronomy ( 34: 6 ) Moses is secretly buried.