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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.