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Horton, William Robert, son of John Henry Horton, of South Weald, Essex, by Caroline, daughter of Edward Frith, of Wimbledon; b. July 13, 1889; adm. April 30, 1903 (G); left July 1908; Trin. Hall, Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1908.

Hose, Henry Judge; son of John Christian Hose, High Holborn, London, chemist and druggist, and Sarah Green, only dau. of Jasper Judge ; b. 24 Sep 1826 (IGI) ; ed.City of London Sch. and Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 25 Jun 1845, matr.Mich.1845, scholar 1847 ; BA and 9th Wrangler 1849 ; MA 1854 ; Assistant Master (Mathematics) 1850-6 ; “a weak, vain creature, quite unsuited to have the care of boys … he was also small and fussy” (Markham, Recollections, 1903, 30) ; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854 (London) ; Warden of St.Paul’s College, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1856-62 ; returned to England 1862 ; Assistant Master (Mathematics) Dulwich College Jan – Dec 1865, Derby Sch. 1867-74 ; Curate, St.Peter, Derby 1870-4 ; Principal, St.Mary’s Coll.Conway 1874-6 ; Curate, Ellingham, Norfolk 1876-9 ; Assistant Master, Bishop’s Stortford GS 1879-80 ; author of an edition of The Elements of Euclid, 1853 ; m. 17 Dec 1850 Ann, eldest dau. of Benjamin Hornby, Eastcheap, London ; d. 16 Jun 1883. See Australian Dictionary of Biography.

HOSE, JOHN CHRISTIAN, eldest son of Rev. John Christian Hose, London, Anglican clergyman, and Emily Louisa Kirton; b. 23 Jul 1867; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (H); left Aug 1882; an insurance official; d. 26 Jun 1946. [mother presumably dau. of James Kirton (IGI)]

HOSKINS, ---; b.; adm. Jan 1663/4; a boarder; left 1664 (Busby’s Account Book).

Hoskins, Sir Arthur Reginald, brother of Thomas Hoskins (adm. 1875, q. v.); b. May 30, 1871; adm. Sept. 24, 1885 (A); left April 1889; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. North Staffs Regt. May 23, 1891; Lieut. Jan. 9, 1895; Capt. March 20, 1900; Major April 7, 1910; Inspector-Gen. of the King's African Rifles Aug. 15, 1913 - Sept. 18, 1914; Lieut.-Col. N. Staffs Regt. April 10, 1916; Major-Gen. Jan. 1, 1917; temp. Lieut.-Gen.; served in the expedition to Dongola 1896, in the Nile expeditions of 1897, 1898, and 1899, in the S. African War 1899-1902, in the operations in Somaliland 1902-3, in France Sept. 1914-8, in East Africa; mentioned in despatches thirteen times; D.S.O. Aug. 22, 1902; C.M.G. June 3, 1916; K.C. B. June 3, 1919; Principal of the Bonar Law College, Ashridge, Herts, 1929-37; President of the Elizabethan Club 1937-40; d. Feb. 7, 1942.

HOSKINS, HORATIO FRANCIS ALEXANDER, brother of Thomas Hoskins (adm. 1875, qv); b. 29 Jun 1866; adm. 23 Sep 1880 ( R); left May 1883; adm. solicitor Nov 1889; practised as solicitor and parliamentary agent in Westminster to Oct 1896; employed Solicitor’s Department, Great Western Railway, as chief parliamentary assistant from 1896, parliamentary agent from 1910; m. 26 Jul 1890 Amy Kate, dau. of Frederick Barry, Great George Street, Westminster, civil engineer.

HOSKINS, THOMAS, son of Thomas Hoskins, Belgrave Road, Pimlico, London, solicitor and parliamentary agent, and Louisa Florence, dau. of Horatio Compigné, Gosport, Hampshire, solicitor; b. 7 Jan 1863; adm. 23 Sep 1875 (James'); left Dec 1879; adm. solicitor Nov 1887; practised in London; d. unm. 29 Jul 1903.

HOSKINS, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1637, Westminster Student to 1641, but did not matr. (check).

HOSKYNS, JOHN, third son of John Hoskyns, Monnington-on-Wye, Llanwarne, Herefs., and Margery, dau. of Thomas Jones, Llanwarne, Herefs.; b. 1566; at school under Grant one year (Aubrey, Brief Lives, i, 417); went to Winchester Coll., adm. scholar 1579, founder’s kin; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1584/5, scholar 22 Jul 1584, Fellow 22 Jun 1586; BA 1588; MA 26 Feb 1591/2, when he served as “terrae filius” with such bitterness that he was forced to resign his fellowship and retired to Somerset, where he supported himself by teaching; adm. Middle Temple 13 Mar 1592/3, called to bar 22 May 1600, Bencher 1620; MP Hereford Mar 1603/4 – Feb 1610/1, 1614, and Feb 1627/8 – Mar 1628/9; committed to Tower of London for making reflections on James I’s Scottish favourites 7 Jul 1614, but released after a year’s imprisonment; Second Justice of Carmarthen from 3 Jul 1621; Serjeant-at-Law 26 Jun 1623; poet and wit; author of verses, epigrams and epitaphs; said to have revised Raleigh’s History of the World and the poems of Ben Jonson (qv); m. 1 Aug 1601 Benedicta, widow of Francis Bourne, Sutton St. Cleve, Somerset, and dau. of Robert Moyle, Buckwell, Kent; d. 27 Aug 1638. DNB.