Individual Details

First Baronet of Brookhouse (Blackburn), one-time M.P. for Blackburn, of Whinfield and subsequently of Pleasington Hall, Blackburn. Educated privately. Entered R.N. aged 12 1/2, and served during the Crimean War as Naval Cadet in British Fleet despatched to the Baltic, 1855. Received Baltic Medal. Contested St. Paul's Ward, Blackburn, at Municipal Elections, Nov., 1868. Elected for St. Mary's Ward, Nov. 1873. Mayor of Blackburn, 1876. Subsequently Alderman. Chmn. of Blackburn Conservative Society, and leader in Town Council, 1874-86. Elected M.P. for Blackburn (unopposed), 1886, and represented the Borough until 1910. Chmn. of First School Board for Blackburn, 1871-86. Succeeded his father as a Director of Lancs. and Yorks. Railway. Also succeeded his father as owner of Brookhouse Cotton Mills. Joined Rifle Volunteers as Lieut., 1860; Retired as Major, 1879. Joint Founder and one-time Capt. of East Lancs. Cricket Club, (founded 1865). Created a Bart., 1 Jan., 1899. Freeman of Blackburn, 1903, having again been Mayor in Bourough's Jubilee Year (Coronation Year), 1901-02.

Birth	29 Aug 1841	Raikes Hall, Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Marriage	23 Nov 1887	Letitia Grace Clayton-Browne
Death	22 Oct 1928	Blackburn, Lancashire, England

Spouse	Letitia Grace Clayton-Browne ( - 1937)
Child	Sir Henry Russell Hornby J. P. (1888 - 1971)
Child	Olivia Letitia Hornby (1890 - 1978)
Child	Nd. Lieut. William Raymond Henry Hornby (1893 - 1915)
Child	Margaret Grace Hornby (1901 - 1981)
Child	Annette Mary Hornby (1905 - )

Father	William Henry Hornby Mp Jp Dl (1805 - 1884)
Mother	Margaret Susannah Birley (1810 - 1899)
Sibling	John Hornby (1832 - 1901)
Sibling	Elizabeth Henriana Hornby (1834 - 1851)
Sibling	Frances Mary Hornby (1836 - 1887)
Sibling	Augusta Margaret Hornby (1838 - )
Sibling	Edward Kenworthy Hornby J. P. (1839 - 1887)
Sibling	Henry Sudell Hornby (1840 - 1840)
Sibling	Capt. Cecil Lumsden Hornby (1843 - )
Sibling	Caroline Louisa Hornby (1845 - )
Sibling	Albert Neilson Hornby J. P. (1847 - 1925)
Sibling	Charles Herbert Hornby (1849 - )