ABSTRACT
“Proprietor, Politician, Defendant” documents Bottomley’s advance, from periods of being a journalist, to a magazine editor, and then a businessmen, and his accumulation of capital with the assistance of figures such as Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) and the City financier Henry Osborne O’Hagan. It describes Bottomley’s stint as editor of The Financial Times, including Bottomley’s attempts to reinvent that paper in his image. It culminates in Bottomley’s acquittal in 1892 in the Hansard Union fraud trial, the foundation of his later reputation.
