Peter Rachman (1919 – 29 November 1962) was a landlord in the Notting Hill area of London in the 1950s and 1960s, who became so notorious for his exploitation of tenants that the word "Rachmanism" entered the OED as a synonym for the application of greedy, unscrupulous business practices. Ironically, his surname means "merciful one" in Hebrew.
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