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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.

HORSEY, GEORGE, son of Jasper Horsey (or Horsley); b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1619, adm. scholar 1620; BA 1623/4; MA 1627 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1627); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1624 – c. 1637; ordained; Dean of Ross from 19 Nov 1637; m. Anne, dau. of George Byrdmore, Staffs.; d. 30 Jul 1639.

Horsfall, Nicholas Mark, son of Cdr. Thomas Mendelssohn Horsfall OBE RN, and Sonia Horsfall, BBC Russian Service, d. of Oscar Szapiro, med. practitioner, of Vilnius, Lithuania; b. 19 Sept. 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (QS); left Dec. 1963; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1964, BA 1967 (1st class hons Class. Trip. Pts 1 & 2), MA 1971; Hallam Prize 1965, Montagu Butler Prize 1966, Chancellor’s Medal 1967; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. (sen. schol. ) 1968-71, MA DPhil 1971; lecturer in Greek and Latin, UCL 1971-87; invited lecturer, Univ. of Camb. 1974-6; visiting Prof., Colgate Univ. USA 1976; visiting res. Fellow, Macquarie Univ., NSW, Australia 1980; Balsdon sen. res. Fellow, British Sch. at Rome, Italy 1985; resident in Italy 1987-2000; visiting Prof. Univ. of Cassino 1987-8, Istituto Orientale, Naples, 1988-9; now resident in Scotland; hon. Prof., Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, Univ. of Durham; author, commmentaries on Virgil, Aeneid; m. 1st, 1969 Julia Loraine, d. of A.B. Robinson of Gateshead, Co. Durham; 2nd, 1986 Mariateresa, d. of Prof. Mario Scotti, scholar and poet, of Rome, Italy; d. 1 Jan. 2019

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.