Bottomley, Horatio

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  • Financial services Business promotion, projection, etc, activities
  • Publishing & printing Newspaper & periodical publishing

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Horatio Bottomley, 1860-1933, variously publisher, company promoter, journalist and not least bankrupt and swindler. Established periodical publishers Catherine Street Publishing Association in 1885 and Hansard Publishing Union Ltd in 1889. 1890s established Joint Stock Trust & Institute to float mining businesses. 1906 established popular John Bull periodical and briefly owned Sun newspaper. Sometime MP. Bankrupt 1891, 1912, etc. Brought forward a succession of fraudulent investment schemes and was finally convicted and gaoled 1922

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