TIL of Jerningham Wakefield, a New Zealand politician who was such a notorious drunk, his friends would lock him in Parliament overnight to keep him sober enough to vote the next day. However, this failed in 1872 when his political enemies began lowering bottles of whisky down the chimney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerningham_Wakefield



Submitted February 25, 2015 at 02:10PM by SirGuyGrand http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2x3ec6/til_of_jerningham_wakefield_a_new_zealand/