Individual Details

"Of Olive Mount, Wavertree, Liverpool, and formerly of Northumberland Terrace, Everton, and of Druids Cross, Little Woolton, Merchant. Educated privately at Rugby. Entered family business c. 1840. A player with Liverpool cricket club, and later Secretary. Subsequently Vice-President and Acting Chairman. Steward of Waterloo Cup Coursing Meetings. Joint-winner of Waterloo Cup with "Herschel", 1887. Founder-member of Liverpool Liberal Assocn. Founder-member of Liverpool Liberal-Unionist Assocn., 1886. J.P. (Liverpool), 1860, and (Lancs. - Kirkdale Petty Sessional Div.), 1862. Director of Royal Insurance Co. Member of Committee, Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Member, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 1862, (from 1862 to 1876 a member of the Docks and Quays Committee and the Traffic Committee, then a member of the Pty. Cttee., 1876). Chairman, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, 1876-89. Recd. Prince and Princess of Wales at opening of Alexandra and Langton Docks, Bootle, 1881. Gave evidence as Dock Bd. Chmn. so select cttees. of House of Commons and House of Lords. Twice declined a knighthood. Member, Pilotage Cttee., 1881-87. Director, Liverpool Overhead Rly. Co. Hon Sec., Altcar Club. Died unmarried. The Hornby Dock in Liverpool was named after Mr. T. D. Hornby."

Birth	1 Feb 1822	Of Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Death	31 Jul 1889	Of Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Father	Joseph Hornby Esq. (1794 - 1853)
Mother	Elizabeth Baldwin Dyson (1795 - 1873)
Sibling	William Hornby (1823 - 1824)
Sibling	Anne Mary Baldwin Hornby (1825 - 1904)
Sibling	Harriet Elizabeth Hornby (1825 - 1857)
Sibling	William Joseph Hornby (1827 - 1842)
Sibling	Col. Henry Hugh Hornby J. P. (1831 - 1913)
Sibling	Rev. Charles Edward Hornby M. A. (1833 - 1918)
Sibling	Richard Dyson Hornby (1836 - 1837)