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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.

HORNE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Horne (adm. 1721, qv); bapt. Spelsbury, Oxfordshire 5 Sep 1737; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1744; went to Eton Coll. , KS 1750-5; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1755, aged 18; migrated to Trinity Coll. Oxford; BA 1759; MA 1762 (incorp. Cambridge 1769); BD and DD 1788; Fellow, Trinity Coll. ; ordained priest (Oxford) 22 Jun 1766; Master of the Manor House School, Chiswick, Middlesex; m. Frances Ann Price; d. 27 Jan 1824. [Perhaps Vicar of Withington, Herefs. , 9 May 1778 – res Jan 1797].

HORNE, THOMAS, son of Rev. Thomas Horne, Clapham, Surrey; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1721; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Mar 1724/5, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1725 – void by marriage 13 Jan 1737; BA 1728; MA 1731; ordained deacon May 1732, priest Jun 1734 (both Oxford); Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford 1735; Vicar of Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, from 1736 (year of grace from 19 Jan 1736/7); Rector of Whichford, Warwicks., from 11 Jan 1753; m. by 1737 Susan ---; buried 3 Sep 1768.

HORNE, THOMAS, eldest son of Thomas Horne (adm. 1744, qv); b.; adm. 17 Sep 1784; KS 1786; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1790, matr. 9 Jun 1790, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1799 – void by marriage 29 Jun 1799; BA 1794; MA 1797; BD 1805; Select Preacher 1815, Bampton Lecturer 1828; ordained; Vicar of Wooburn, Bucks., 26 Dec 1801; Rector of St. Catherine Coleman, London, from 9 Jan 1812; Vicar of Mursley, Bucks., 18 Oct 1833; carried on his father’s school at Chiswick 1824-35; author, The Religious Necessity of the Reformation asserted, 1828; m. 27 Jun 1799 Cecilia Clementina Eliza, second dau. of John Zoffany RA, Chiswick, painter; d. 19 Jan 1847, aged 74.

HORNE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Horne (adm. 1784, qv); b. ; adm. Midsummer 1812; absent 1814-5; left 18 Mar 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 May 1818, aged 17, Canoneer Student 1819-27; BA 1822; MA 1825; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jan 1818, called to bar 6 Feb 1827; emigrated to Tasmania, arriving at Hobart 31 Jan 1830; practised law there; Solicitor-Gen. , Tasmania Jan 1841 – Mar 1844, Attorney-Gen. Mar 1844 – Jan 1848; Puisne Judge, Tasmania Jan 1848 – Sep 1860; member Legislative Council, Tasmania, 1856-9, House of Assembly 1861-6; m. Maria ---; d. 23 Sep 1870.

HORNE, SIR (WILLIAM) EDGAR, BART., eldest son of Edgar Horne, Russell Square, London, auctioneer and surveyor, and his first wife Maria, widow of Thomas Eversfield, Westminster; b. 21 Jan 1856; adm. 23 Sep 1869 (James'); left Whitsun 1872; entered father’s office and on father’s retirement became head of firm; FSI 1882, President 1911; Chairman, United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, in last year of their existence; member, Westminster City Council, Mayor 1923-4, Alderman from 1925; MP (Cons) Guildford Jan 1910-22; chairman, Prudential Assurance Co.; created baronet 25 Mar 1929; DL Sutherlandshire; a Governor of the School from 1913; a Busby Trustee from 1925; m. 7 Oct 1886 Margery, dau. of George Anderson May, Elford, Staffs.; d. 26 Sep 1941.

HORNE, WILLIAM HENRY, eldest son of William Horne (qv); b. 9 Sep 1832; adm. 1 Oct 1846 (Scott's); QS 1847; left 1851; Cornet, 15th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 27 Aug 1852; Lieut., 14 Sep 1855; Capt., 31 Aug 1858; 2nd Dragoon Guards 29 Apr 1859; ret. 2 Dec 1862; JP Suffolk; still listed in Kelly’s Handbook 1899; m. Agnes M. --- (1881 Census).

HORNE, WILLIAM, son of Sir William Horne KC MP, Upper Harley Street, London, Attorney-General, afterwards Master in Chancery, and Ann Tomlinson, Newark, Notts., dau. of James Hesse, Flitwick, Bedfordshire; grandson of Thomas Horne (adm. 1744, qv); b. 27 Jul 1801; adm. 19 Apr 1816 (Du Brieux's); left 7 Apr 1819; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Apr 1819; BA 1822; MA 1825; ordained deacon 1824, priest 1825; Rector of Humber, Herefs., 2 Mar 1830 – Dec 1844; Rector of Hotham, Yorks., 1831-44; Rector of Great Limber, Lincs., 1844-9; Rector of Barming, Kent, from 1849; m. 4 Jul 1831 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Jacob Hans Busk, Ponsbourne Park, Herts.; d. 4 Nov 1865.

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.