HORNECK, CHARLES, only son of Capt. Kane William Horneck, Plymouth, Devon, engineer in Office of Ordnance, and Hannah Mangles [or Triggs ?], Plymouth; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 25 Mar 1768; Lieut. and Capt., 7 Jun 1773; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 25 Mar 1782; Lieut. -Col., 62nd Foot 5 Jun 1789; Col., Northampton Fencible Infantry 12 Oct 1793; Maj. -Gen., 26 Feb 1795; Lieut. -Gen., 29 Apr 1802; Col., 5th Royal Garrison Battn., 25 Dec 1802; Goldsmith’s “Captain in Lace”, and the brother of “Little Comedy” and the “Jessamy Bride”; for the circumstances of the breakdown of his marriage and of his wife’s flight to the continent with John Scawen (qv), whom she subsequently married, see Hickey, Memoirs, i, 303-8; m. 31 May 1773 Sarah, natural dau. of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv); d. 8 Apr 1804.
Horner, Bernard Stuart, son of John Stuart Horner, of Surbiton, Surrey, by Emily Green, daughter of Col. Birch, of Ealing; b. Dec. 5, 1889; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1908; matric. Michaelmas 1908; 2nd class Mathematics (Mods.) 1909; Boulter Law Exhibitioner 1910; 1st class Jurisprudence 1911; B.A. 1912; Assoc. Inst. of Actuaries 1913; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. E. Surrey Regt. May 11, 1912; Indian Army Jan. 22, 1918; Capt. May 3, 1919; Asst. Political Agent Loralai Nov. 1920-April 1921; Secretary to Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Nov. 1924; Deputy Commissioner, Hazara, 1929; Div. and Sessions Judge, Derajat, 1929; retired 1932; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Jan. 26, 1931; South-Eastern Circuit; Col., H. Section, London Home Guard; O.B.E. Dec. 15, 1944; M.A. 1955; Master of the Ironmongers' Company 1955; Chairman of the Elizabethan Club 1956-9; m. 1st Jan. 9, 1919, Isabel Margaret Mary, younger daughter of Joseph Aloysius O'Brien, formerly of the Indian Finance Dept.; 2nd May 9, 1931, Sibyl Gertrude Overton, M.B., Medical Inspector of Factories, Home Office, youngest daughter of Arthur Overton, of Forest Row, Sussex; d. 22 Feb. 1981.
HORNER, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 9) Sep 1718; in under school list 1724; of parish St. Margaret’s, Westminster; m. 5 Mar 1734/5 Anne Ewens, St. Margaret, Westminster. [will of William Horner, St. Margaret, Westminster, upholder, proved PCC 14 May 1754]
Hornor, George Edward, son of Allan Moline Hornor, of Hampstead; b. March 5, 1876; adm. May 10, 1888 (G); left July 1894.
Hornsby, Anthony Charles, brother of Frederick David Hornsby (qv); b. 21 Feb. 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (G); left July 1952; navigating officer RAF 1952-6; sales man. Blundell Spence & Co. 1957-, chief exec. Blundell Permaglaze Holdings Plc 1979-85; a bus. consult. 1986-99; m. 21 May 1960 Jane Ellen, d. of Herbert Edmund Davis, co. dir., of Kingston Hill, Surrey; d. 26 Nov. 2006.
Hornsby, Frederick Noel, son of Major Frederick Myddleton Hornsby, C.B.E. of Westminster, by Ann, daughter of Charles Johnson, of Wanstead, Essex; b. Dec. 27, 1903; adm. Jan. 20, 1916 (G); left Dec. 1921; chairman and managing director, Myddleton Hotels and Estates Ltd.; Lieut. R.A.S.C. Aug. 26, 1940; transferred to General List April 19, 1941; Staff Capt., War Office; m. May 21, 1931, Enid Mary, only daughter of A.W. Barnett Roberts, of Wandsworth.
Hornsby, Jack Myddleton, brother of Frederick Noel Hornsby (qv); b. 10 May 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (G); left July 1923; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1923; RASC 1939-45 (Capt.); dir. Myddleton Hotels & Estates Ltd; m. 25 May 1939 Beryl, d. of Leonard Hodges; d. 28 Mar. 1975.
HORNSBY, THOMAS, son of Rev. Thomas Hornsby DD FRS, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford Univ.; b.; adm. 22 Feb 1781; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1781; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 Jun 1784, aged 18, Canoneer Student 22 Dec 1786 – void 17 Dec 1798, expiry year of grace as V. Ravensthorpe; reprimanded for riotous and intemperate behaviour at dinner given by MPs for Oxford 26 Jun 1790; BA 1788; MA 1791; ordained deacon May 1790, priest Jun 1791 (both Oxford); Curate, Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire 4 Feb 1791; Rector of Drayton St. Leonard, Oxfordshire 1793; Chaplain to Duke of Dorset; Vicar of Ravensthorpe, Northants, from 7 Dec 1797; Rector of Waddesdon, Bucks. (second portion) 1799 (disp. to hold with Ravensthorpe); m. Anna ---; d. at St. Helier, Jersey 4 Feb 1832.
HORRY, CHARLES LUCAS PINCKNEY, elder son of Col. Daniel Horry, Hampton, Santee River, South Carolina, and his second wife Harriott, sister of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (qv); b. 1769; adm. 10 Sep 1781 (as Horry, Daniel); left 1786; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 15 Dec 1786, matr. Mich. 1787; adm. Middle Temple 25 Oct 1781 (as Horry, Daniel); settled in France, where he dropped his baptismal Christian name Daniel and became known as Charles Lucas Pinckney Horry; painted by Romney in 1789 in his college gown, stepping from the gateway of Trinity Coll.; a writer in GM 1823, i, 494, states that Horry was the author of the well-known epigram on Benjamin Jowett of Trinity Hall and his little garden, generally attributed to Francis Wrangham (see DNB); m. Eléonore Marie Florimond de Fay, dau. of Comte de la Tour Maubourg, and niece of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, General in the French Army and friend of George Washington; d. 1828.