Hackney (UK Parliament constituency)

At abolition it was noted intense house- and apartment (tenement block-) building had occurred within its boundaries and it was divided into seven single seats.

The parliamentary borough of Hackney was established in 1868 and its area formed part of the east of the historic county of Middlesex.

The area was to the east of Islington and Hornsey, south of Tottenham in its county and west of Walthamstow in Essex.

In 1889 the former area, for administrative purposes, became part of the London County Council local authority.

The appointment of Fawcett as Postmaster General and Holms as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury caused a by-election for both seats.

Hackney in the Metropolitan area from 1868 to 1885.
Sir Charles Reed MP
Henry Fawcett and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Ford Madox Brown , 1872, National Portrait Gallery, London
"Military changes"
Holms as caricatured by Spy ( Leslie Ward ) in Vanity Fair , February 1882
" Hoxton Division "
Stuart as caricatured by "Stuff" in Vanity Fair , October 1899