Hackney South (UK Parliament constituency)
Hackney South was a parliamentary constituency in "The Metropolis". It was represented by nine Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, only two of whom, Horatio Bottomley and Herbert Morrison, were elected more than once.
Scoble
Robertson
Morison
Horatio William Bottomley was an English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his editorship of the popular magazine John Bull, and for his nationalistic oratory during the First World War. His career came to a sudden end when, in 1922, he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
Bottomley addressing a WWI recruiting rally in Trafalgar Square, London, September 1915
Charles Bradlaugh, whose facial resemblance to Bottomley helped foster the rumour that he was the latter's biological father
Sir Henry Hawkins, the judge before whom Bottomley appeared, and was acquitted, on fraud charges in 1893
Bottomley's country home, "The Dicker", photographed in 2010. It forms part of St Bede's School.