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            1548 People & Organisations results for Grant's

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            GB-2014-WSA-09561 · Person · 1905-1975

            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.

            GB-2014-WSA-09560 · Person · 1903-?

            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.

            GB-2014-WSA-09559 · Person · 1934-2006

            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.

            GB-2014-WSA-09558 · Person · 1876-?

            Hornor, George Edward, son of Allan Moline Hornor, of Hampstead; b. March 5, 1876; adm. May 10, 1888 (G); left July 1894.

            Horne, Robert Wintle, 1810-?
            GB-2014-WSA-09550 · Person · 1810-?

            HORNE, ROBERT WINTLE, son of Thomas Horne (adm. 1784, qv); b. 7 Aug 1810; adm. 12 Jan 1824 (G); Cadet, EICS Bombay 1827; Ensign, 8th Bombay Native Infantry 3 Jan 1828; Lieut., 25 Jun 1832; Brevet Capt., 3 Jan 1843; ret. 24 Jan 1843; went to live in South Africa and latterly in Tasmania; living 1851; m. 21 Aug 1840 Maria, second dau. of Rev. Roger Bickerstaff, Vicar of St. Martin’s, Shropshire.

            GB-2014-WSA-09547 · Person · 1905-1982

            Horne, Edward William Theobald, son of Edward Rowley Horne of Eastbourne and Mary Ethel, d. of John Wilson Theobald of Croydon; b. 24 May 1905; adm. Apr. 1920 (H), later (G); left Mar. 1922; RASC 1939-45 (Lieut.-Col.); a tea planter in Ceylon and Mauritius; m. 10 Dec. 1955 Maxine Lillian, d. of James Shelley of Perth, W. Australia; d. 12 Aug. 1982.

            GB-2014-WSA-09532 · Person · 1897-1978

            Hopwood, Sir Francis John, 3rd Baron Southborough, son of Francis, 1st Baron Southborough, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I., by his second wife, Florence Emily, daughter of Lieut.-Gen. Samuel Black, C.S.I., C.I.E.; b. March 7, 1897; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (G); left Dec. 1914; served in Great War I; temp. Sub-Lieut. R.N.V.R. June 14, 1915; managing director, Shell Transport and Trading Co., Ltd.; knighted 1953; a Governor of the School 1957; succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Baron Southborough 1960; m. Nov. 23, 1918, Audrey Evelyn Dorothy, daughter of Edgar George Money; d. 4 Feb. 1978.

            GB-2014-WSA-09458 · Person · 1898-1945

            Holmes, Robert Edward Ingram, son of J. W. Holmes, of Wallington, Surrey; b. Dec. 7, 1898; adm. Jan. 18, 1912 (G); left April 1917; 2nd Lieut. 5th (Res.) Batt. Grenadier Guards; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1922; silver medallist, R. Academy of Drama­tic Art; an actor; frequently appeared on the London stage and was a regular member of the Repertory Players; 2nd Lieut. R. A. Sept. 21, 1939; d. of wounds July 10, 1945.

            Robert Edward Ingram Holmes was born at Wallington, Surrey on the 7th of December 1898 the second son of James Wallace Holmes, an East India merchant, and Edith Mary Annie (nee Ingram) Holmes of “Cotleigh”, 5, Stanley Park Road, Wallington in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from the 18th of January 1912 to April 1917. He was appointed as Monitor in January 1917.
            He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th (Reserve) Battalion, Grenadier Guards during the Great War and served overseas. He matriculated for Christ Church, Oxford in 1919 and graduated with a BA in 1922. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he won a Silver Medal, and became an actor with frequent appearances on the London stage as well as being a regular member of the Repertory Players. He played Laertes in the modern dress version of Hamlet at the Kingsway Theatre, London in 1925. He appeared in the film drama “The Rosary”, directed by Guy Newall in 1931, in the part of Concannon in the comedy film “Hyde Park Corner”, directed by Sinclair Hill in 1935 and in the part of d’Allery in the comedy film “The Gay Adventure” also directed by Sinclair Hill in 1936.
            Following the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of Lance Bombardier before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on the 21st of September 1939. He was dismissed from the army on the 16th of December 1942 following a Court Martial.
            He died at “'Houghton”, Petworth Road, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey
            His death is not recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as he was no longer in the army at the time of his death.

            GB-2014-WSA-09454 · Person · 1905-1980

            Holmes, Edward Tilt, brother of Stephen Lewis Holmes (q.v.); b. Feb. 4, 1905; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (G); left Aug. 1922; Univ. Coll. Reading; Diploma in Agriculture 1926; Superintendent of Agriculture, Nigerian Civil Service, 1926; Senior Agricultural Officer, Sierra Leone, 1940, and Nigeria 1944-53; m. 1st Nov. 17, 1934, Nancy Elizabeth Sheila Argyle, daughter of Arthur George Johnson, L.R.C.P. and S. (Ed.) of Hull; 2nd Nov. 5, 1946, Catherine Edith Mary, widow of Lieut.-Cdr. Michael Skinner, R. N., and elder daughter of D. MacDonald, of Shanghai; d. 20 Apr. 1980.

            GB-2014-WSA-09451 · Person · 1858-1893

            HOLMES, CHARLES EDWARD MOLLOY, son of Rev. Edward Molloy Holmes, Rector of Marsh Gibbon, Bucks., and Emily Georgiana --- (IGI); b. 7 Jul 1858; adm. 30 May 1872 (G); left Christmas 1872; at Cheltenham Coll. Jan 1873 – Easter 1876; architect (1881 Census); subsequently a rancher in North America; d. Apr 1893.