Rentaghost with limited success, to involve the ghosts in his latest business enterprise. When actor Michael Darbyshire (who played the role of Davenport) died in 1979, Anthony Jackson (Mumford) declined to appear in the next series, leaving Michael Staniforth's Claypole the sole original ghost; Davenport and Mumford's absences were explained at the start of the series by the pair having gone on an extended tour of stately home hauntings. After Mumford's departure, the business was taken over by Harold Meaker and his wife Ethel, who suffered from the various problems the ghosts brought to their lives. The long-suffering neighbours of Rentaghost
Beauford H. Jester for many years. Jester also served as director of the state bar association from 1940 to 1941. For many years, Jester was a member of the University of Texas Board of Regents. From 1933 to 1935, he was the youngest man to ever serve as president of that body. A Democrat, Jester first won statewide elective office in 1942, when elected to the Texas Railroad Commission. He served until January 1947. He decided to run for governor, winning the Democratic primary in a run-off election in 1946 by defeating Homer Rainey. The latter had been discharged by the regents as