Hackney (UK Parliament constituency)
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Hackney was a two-seat constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament created under the Representation of the People Act, 1867 from the former northern parishes of the Tower Hamlets constituency and abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885.
Sir Charles Reed MP
Henry Fawcett and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Ford Madox Brown, 1872, National Portrait Gallery, London
"Military changes" Holms as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1882
"Hoxton Division" Stuart as caricatured by "Stuff" in Vanity Fair, October 1899
Reform Act 1867
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The Representation of the People Act 1867, known as the Reform Act 1867 or the Second Reform Act, is an act of the British Parliament that enfranchised part of the urban male working class in England and Wales for the first time. It took effect in stages over the next two years, culminating in full commencement on 1 January 1869.
"Dishing the Whigs", Fun cartoon. Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli "dish" their Whig opponents by introducing more liberal reforms than they had contemplated; their heads are presented on a platter to Queen Victoria.