Horatio Myer

Horatio Myer (7 June 1850[1] – 1 January 1916) was a British businessman, iron trades manufacturer and later, Liberal politician.

[6] In fact Naoroji decided to stand in Lambeth North as an independent Liberal but did not split the vote badly enough to cost Myer the seat.

Despite heading the poll in Lambeth North in 1906, Myer was unable to hold the seat at the general election of January 1910.

This was despite having acquired a reputation for clever electioneering,[7] assistance during the campaign from his former LCC colleague John Burns, by then the MP for Battersea, the first working man to gain full cabinet rank and some disruptive tactics by Liberals at Unionist meetings.

[10] One of the questions Myer raised early in the new Parliament was the treatment of Zulu prisoners in Natal and whether they were to be forced to work as diamond miners.