Individual Details
Rev. Geoffrey Hornby D. L.
(Bef 14 Aug 1750 - 31 Jul 1812)
"Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. High Sheriff of Lancashire, 1774. Lieut. Col. of one of the Regiments of lancashire Militia, 1776. D.L. (Lancs.), 1778. Afterwards took Holy Orders, and was Rector of Winwick, Warrington, (in the gift of the Earls of Derby), 1781-1812. Purchased during the latter part of the 18th century the manor of Dalton, Burton-in-Kendal, Westmorland. (For further details of the life at Winwick and Knowsley of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby and his family, see "The Diary of Frances, lady Shelley, 1787-1817", edited by her grandson, Richard Edgcumbe, and published by John Murray in 1912.)"
Events
| Birth | Bef 14 Aug 1750 | Layton Hall, Blackpool, Lancashire, England | |||
| Christen | 14 Aug 1750 | Bispham, Lancashire, England | |||
| Death | 31 Jul 1812 | Winwick, Warrington, England | |||
| Burial | 5 Aug 1812 | Winwick, Warrington, England |
Families
| Spouse | Hon. Lucy Stanley (1751 - 1833) |
| Child | Edmund Hornby (1773 - 1857) |
| Child | Lucy Hornby (1775 - 1849) |
| Child | Rev. James John Hornby M. A. (1777 - 1855) |
| Child | Charlotte Margaret Hornby (1778 - 1817) |
| Child | Rev. Geoffrey Hornby Ll. B. (1780 - 1850) |
| Child | Edward Thomas Stanley Hornby (1782 - 1825) |
| Child | Georgiana Hornby (1783 - 1861) |
| Child | Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby G. C. B. (1785 - 1867) |
| Child | Frances Susannah Hornby (1787 - 1874) |
| Child | Louisa Hornby (1788 - 1873) |
| Child | Rev. George Hornby B. D. (1790 - 1872) |
| Child | Col. Charles Hornby (1791 - 1867) |
| Child | Henrietta Elizabeth Hornby (1793 - 1859) |
| Father | Edmund Hornby (1728 - 1766) |
| Mother | Margaret Winckley (1725 - 1798) |
| Sibling | Margaret Hornby (1752 - 1815) |
| Sibling | Dorothy Hornby (1753 - 1769) |
| Sibling | Edmund Hornby (1754 - 1757) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Hornby (1755 - 1756) |
| Sibling | Susannah Hornby (1756 - 1799) |
| Sibling | Edward Hornby (1756 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Hornby (1757 - 1758) |