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...broken 73-year-old man applied to the British Government for an old-age pension of $1.71 weekly. Fortnight ago it was refused. London editors glanced at the name below the application and sent reporters scurrying to the free ward of Middlesex Hospital. The name was Horatio William Bottomley...
...history of Britain's part in the World War is complete without a chapter on Horatio Bottomley. He was worth a regiment of recruiting sergeants in the early days of the War. He breakfasted with David Lloyd George regularly at Downing Street, reviewed the Grand Fleet from Admiral Lord Beatty's flagship, earned the title of Britain's Unofficial Prime Minister. Nervous over the introduction of conscription, the Asquith Cabinet demanded just one thing: the support of Horatio Bottomley...
Where he was born no one is certain, but it was in 1860 and the parents were Elizabeth Holyoake and William King Bottomley. His parents had a pathetic desire to make an artist of him. Horatio ran away to earn his living as a day laborer. He studied shorthand, became a court stenographer, studied law and though never admitted to the bar, used to boast that he was "the best lay lawyer in England.'' At various times he was connected with some 20 or 30 different companies which failed, successively for about $90,000,000, but publishing...
...anti-U. S. prejudice. MORE SWANK FROM THE YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half a bottle and wipe his mouth on his sleeve...
...Steele '33 (L) defeated P. H. Singer '34 (W), 3-1; Samuel Smith '34 (L) defeated G. T. Bottomley '35 (W), 3-2; J. H. Russell '33 (L) defeated J. W. Carman...