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Frederick William "Fred" Horner (born 12 December 1854) was a British playwright, publisher and Conservative politician. Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, he was educated privately.〔 He was active in local politics as a member of the vestry or local authority for the central London parish of St Martin in the Fields, and he assumed the ''nom de plume'' of "Martyn Field".〔 Among his plays were ''The Late Lamented'', ''The Bungalow'' and ''The Other Fellow''.〔 In 1896 Horner purchased the ''Whitehall Review'', becoming its editor-proprietor. ==Member of parliament== Horner was a member of the executive and finance committees and of the council of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, and at the 1895 general election was an unsuccessful candidate for the constituency of Southwark West. 〔 At the next so-called "khaki" election in 1900, held at the height of the Second Anglo-Boer War, he won the seat of Lambeth North, a seat previously held by the Liberal Party. Horner's single term in parliament was mired in financial scandal: at the end of 1900 Horner formed Mayfair Printing & Publishing Limited, a company to which he assigned the copyright and goodwill of the ''Whitehall Review''.〔 In 1902 and 1903 Henry Labouchère, Liberal MP for Northampton alleged that Horner had obtained cash or credit from a number of hotels on the Continent using company cheques which were not honoured by the bank. In November 1905 Labouchère published further allegations in his periodical ''Truth''. These detailed five more dishonoured company cheques cashed by Horner in Monaco, France and Switzerland, totalling in excess of 500 pounds.〔 Horner launched libel proceedings against the magazine without success. By the time of the general election called in January 1906, he had been disowned by the Conservative Party, who nominated another candidate for his Lambeth North seat. Horner defended his seat as an Independent Unionist, but secured only 108 votes, finishing last of the four candidates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick William Horner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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