Horatio Bottomley
✓ Source-basedfallingEnglish financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament (1860-1933)
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.
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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.
Ernest Hooley, the financier who was Bottomley's partner in several schemes
Front page of the Daily Mirror, 10 September 1915, illustrating Bottomley's public meetings on behalf of the war effort
John Bull advertises Bottomley's "Victory Bonds" scheme, 12 July 1919.
Bottomley in court, after his sentencing; a depiction by the Illustrated London NewsPoliticians from United Kingdom 6
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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.
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