HORSFORD, ---; b.; in school list 1795.
HORSLEY, HENEAGE, only son of Right Rev. Samuel Horsley LLD, successively Bishop of St. Davids, Rochester and St. Asaph, and his first wife Mary, dau. of Rev. John Botham, Rector of Albury, Surrey; b. 23 Feb 1776; adm. 30 Jun 1788; Min. Can. 1790; KS 1791; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1795, matr. 3 Jun 1795, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1795 – void 11 May 1802, expiry year of grace as R. Woolwich; BA 1799; MA 1802; ordained 1799; Rector of Woolwich, Kent 6 May 1801-3; Vicar of Chirk, Denbighshire 14 Apr 1803-4; Prebendary of St. Asaph from 18 Apr 1803; Vicar of Gresford, Denbighshire, from 13 Oct 1803; Vicar of Castle Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, from 22 Jun 1804; Chaplain to Episcopal Church, Dundee 1807 (still 1842); Dean of Brechin (in 1842); m. 25 Jun 1801 Frances Emma, sister of Sir Richard Bourke (qv); d. 6 Oct 1847.
HORSLEY, SAMUEL, only son of Heneage Horsley (qv); b. 16 Aug 1810; adm. 22 Feb 1822 (G); left Christmas 1824; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 31 Mar 1829; BA 1833; MA 1837; an Inspector under Irish Poor Law Board; d. 21 May 1889.
Horsley, William Edward, son of C. Edward Horsley, of Ealham; b. Sept. 30, 1888; adm. Jan. 16, 1902 (A); left (with Triplett) July 1907; Selwyn Coll. Camb., exhibitioner 1907, matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; M.A. 1914; Ridley Hall, Camb.; ord. deacon 1912, priest 1913 (Exeter); Curate of St. Thomas, Exeter, 1912-4, of Dunster, Somerset, 1914-6, and of Chard, in the same co., 1917-8; with Y. M.C. A. in France 1918-9; Curate of Penshurst, Kent, 1919-22, of Yatton, 1922-4; Vicar of Hepworth, Yorks, 1925; Vicar of Foston, Derbys, 1931-41; Rector of North and South Barrow with Lovington, Somerset, 1941; m. May 6, 1924, Jessie Margaret, daughter of William Rokeby Madelock, of Ceylon; d. May 22, 1942.
HORT, FENTON, brother of Sir Josiah William Hort, Bart. (qv); b. 3 Aug 1794; adm.; left 1810; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 May 1811, scholar 1813, matr. Mich. 1811; BA 1815; MA 1821; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Feb 1815; of Leopardstown, co. Dublin; High Sheriff, co. Dublin 1834; subsequently resident at St. John’s Mount, Brecon, and Cheltenham, Gloucs.; member governing body, Cheltenham Coll.; m. 25 Apr 1826 Anne, eldest dau. of Rev. Anthony Collett, Kelsale Hall, Suffolk; d. 18 Mar 1873.
HORT, SIR JOSIAH WILLIAM, BART., eldest son of Sir John Hort, Bart., Consul-General at Lisbon, and Margaret, dau. of Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer, Bart.; b. 6 Jul 1791; adm. 14 Jan 1805; left 1807; succ. as 2nd baronet 23 Oct 1807; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 5 Jul 1809, matr. Lent 1810; MA 1812; DL JP co. Kildare, High Sheriff 1817; MP Co. Kildare 1831-2; m. 31 Mar 1823 Louisa Georgiana, second dau. of Sir John Caldwell, Bart.; d. 24 Aug 1876.
HORTON, ---; b.; in school list 1745.
HORTON, CHRISTOPHER, brother of Walter Buswell Horton (qv); bapt. Croxall, Derbs. 28 Jul 1741 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Sep 1750 (Grant's); in school list 1754; of Catton Hall, Derbs.; m. 4 Aug 1765 Lady Anne Luttrell (who subsequently m. HRH Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland), sister of Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton (I) (qv); buried Croxall, Derbs. 13 Aug 1769.
Horton, Edward Henry, brother of John Corbett Horton (q.v.); b. June 22, 1904; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (A); left July 1923; engaged in the Finnish timber trade 1923-39 and since 1946; 2nd Lieut. R. A. S. C. Jan. 3, 1940; Lieut. July 3, 1941; Capt.; m. April 6, 1935, Sylvia Margaret, only daughter of James Gordon Parker, D.Sc., of Blackheath, Kent; d. 12 Sept. 1979.
Horton, John Corbett, son of Henry Beavan Horton, of Blackheath, Kent, by Jean May, daughter of Thomas Spurr, of King's Lynn, Norfolk; b. Sept. 4, 1899; adm. April 30, 1914 (A); left March 1918; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. R. Sussex Regt. Oct. 30, 1918; a timber merchant, director of B. Horton and Son, Ltd.; Capt. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Feb. 26, 1940; transferred to Durham Light Infantry; Major; m. Aug. 22, 1931, Eileen Mary Dowman, daughter of William Edward Riley, F.R.I.B.A., of Blackheath, Kent; d. on active service Dec. 3, 1944.
John Corbett Horton was born at Blackheath, London on the 4th of September 1899 the eldest son of Henry Beavon Horton, a timber merchant, and Jean Mary (nee Spurr) Horton of 15, Eliot Vale, Blackheath in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from the 30th of April 1914 to March 1918. He was a member of the 2nd Football XI in 1916 and of the 1st Football XI in 1917 and 1918. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps where he was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1916, to Corporal in November 1916 and to Company Sergeant Major in November 1917.
He enlisted into the army at Whitehall as Private 60564 on the 5th of April 1918 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment on the 30th of October 1918. After the war he joined the firm of B. Horton and Son Ltd, timber merchants, where he was later appointed as a director. He retired to the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers and was promoted to Lieutenant in the 20th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich) on the 23rd of December 1928. He was promoted to Captain on the 13th of June 1934.
He was married on the 22nd of August 1931 to Eileen Mary Dowman (nee Riley) and they lived at 16, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham and later at 11, Oakcroft Road, Lewisham in London. They had a son, Richard John, born on the 23rd of January 1934.
Following the outbreak of war he was mobilised in 1940 and was appointed as a Captain in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on the 26th of February 1940. He transferred to the Durham Light Infantry at the same rank on the 13th of June 1940 where he was appointed as second in command of No. 41 Infantry Training Company based at Brancepeth Castle, County Durham.
He died there following a short illness.
He is buried at St Brandon’s Church, Brancepeth.