Question: When was the author of Lord of Scoundrels born?

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Michele Ferrero (priest): Michele Ferrero (born 1967) is a Catholic priest, born in Cuneo, Italy, Salesian of Don Bosco, Professor of Moral Theology and Classics, graduated from Taipei Fu Jen Catholic University.  Faculty of Theology.  He is author of books and articles about Taiwan, China and moral theology.  He holds a doctoral degree in theology and a degree in Classics ("Laurea in Lettere Classiche") from the State University of Torino (Italy).  He has served in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Turin, Italy and Jerusalem.  He is the author of "The cultivation of virtue in Matteo Ricci's 'The true meaning of the Lord of Heaven'"(Fu Jen Catholic University Press, Taipei, 2004), an important study on moral issues common to the Christian and the Confucian traditions.

Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption: Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption (born 9 December 1948), is a British judge, author and medieval historian.  He was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court on 11 January 2012, succeeding The Lord Collins of Mapesbury.  Exceptionally, he was raised to the Supreme Court bench directly from the practising bar, rather than from prior service as a full-time judge.

Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany: Edward John Carlos Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (born Dublin 10 September 1939 — died Navan, County Meath, 24 May 2011), the late 20th Baron of Dunsany, with Irish, Brazilian and UK citizenship, was the grandson of the author Lord Dunsany, and a modern artist and property owner.  Lord Dunsany succeeded to the title in 1999 on the death of his father, Lt-Col Randal Arthur Henry Plunkett, 19th Baron of Dunsany.

Ann Spokes Symonds: Ann Spokes-Symonds is an author and former Lord Mayor of Oxford.  Spokes, later Mrs Ann Spokes-Symonds, was born in 1925, the daughter of Peter Spokes and Lilla Clayton.  Her father founded the Museum of Oxford in 1974.  She is a writer on the history of Oxford.  She entered St Anne's College, Oxford in 1944, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics; she now holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford.  She is a trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, having first become a trustee in 1959.  She served as Lord Mayor of Oxford in 1976/77 and also as the Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council 1981-1983.  She made a donation towards a statue of Alfred Russel Wallace which has been erected at the Natural History Museum.  She married the United Nations official and historian Richard Symonds (1918-2006) in 1980.

Cynthia Lord: Cynthia Lord (born New Hampshire) is a children's author.  Lord's debut novel "Rules" was published by Scholastic, Inc. in 2006, and was a 2007 Newbery Honor book and winner of the Schneider Family Book Award.

Lord of Scoundrels: Lord of Scoundrels is a Regency romance novel by American author Loretta Chase.  Published in 1995 by Avon Books, it is the third installment of her "Débauchés" series.  Set in 1828, the story follows the Marquess of Dain, a half-English half-Italian aristocrat known as "Lord Beelzebub" and the "Lord of Scoundrels" for his unscrupulous, immoral behavior.  Hardened due to a difficult childhood, Dain meets his match in Jessica Trent, a 27-year-old bluestocking more than capable of trading wits with him.

Stephen Maybery: Stephen Maybery (born September 1949) is an author specialising in political satire.  For most of his life, he has been a civil engineer and an avid traveler.  Some of the most interesting places he has visited are for example Iran during the Iranian Revolution and Iraq where he joined the building of nuclear fallout shelters for Ba'ath Party officials.  He grew up and obtained his education in South Wales but currently resides in London.  His first book My Prime Ministers And I came out in May 2004 and has been said to be very well received.  He has finished his second book Gods Knaves And Scoundrels and it was published in December 2009. <br>

Loretta Chase: Loretta Chase, née Loretta Lynda Chekani (born 1949) is an American writer of romance novels since 1987.

Brian Gill, Lord Gill: Brian Gill, Lord Gill, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 25 February 1942) is a retired Scottish judge and a legal academic.  He served as Lord President and Lord Justice General from June 2012 until May 2015.  Gill previously served as Lord Justice Clerk from 2001 to 2012, and as Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission from 1996 to 2001.  As an advocate, he practised principally in agricultural law and is the author of "The Law of Agricultural Holdings in Scotland".  In 2007–2009, Gill undertook a far-reaching review of the civil courts system in Scotland, recommending a shift of much of the workload of the Court of Session to Scotland's local sheriff courts.

Joachim Posener: Joachim Ralph Posener, (born 17 January 1964 in Lidingö) is a Swedish financier and author.  Posener is a lawyer by educated who was active in the Swedish finance trade from the late 1980s to the end of the 1990s.  He became publicly known in November 1997 after having been accused by the media as being the mastermind behind Lord Moynes acquisition of the Swedish publicly traded company Trustor AB.  The company acquisition, which later become known as the Trustor affair eventually ended with one of Lord Moynes "Team" members, Thomas Jisander, being sent to a prison term.  When Swedish police acted against Lord Moyne and his "team" in October 1997 Posener happened to be abroad, and he chose then according to his own statements to not return to Sweden.  This became very well publicized in Swedish media and also led to Posener being hand down an international arrest warrant.  According to his own statements he was at first for some time in Spain, and later he is supposed to have lived in Argentina.  In spite of the International Arrest Warrant Posener was never found by the police and the crimes the police had suspected him of were no longer actionable against Mr Posener due to the Swedish law on statute of limitations.  No one of Lord Moynes "team" could be accused in any court of law with regard to the Trustor Affair after the 20 June 2007.

Supporting paragraphs: Lord of Scoundrels Loretta Chase
Answer: 1949