Charles Harold St John Hornby (25 June 1867 – 1946) was a founding partner of W. H. Smith, deputy vice-chairman of the NSPCC, and founder and owner of...
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Ashendene Press (redirect from C. H. St. John Hornby)
The Ashendene Press was a small private press founded by St John Hornby (1867–1946). It operated from 1895 to 1915 in Chelsea, London and was revived after...
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St John Hornby (2 January 1899 – 7 December 1987) was vice chairman of WHSmith, the British retail chain, for over 20 years. Michael Charles St John Hornby...
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Hornby Hobbies Limited is a British-owned scale model manufacturing company which has been focused on model railways. Its roots date back to 1901 in Liverpool...
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[citation needed] Firstly, he married Susan Mary Hornby (1929–2005), daughter of Michael Charles St John Hornby and Nicolette Joan Ward, on 19 October 1951...
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Irish writer St John Groser (1890-1966), Anglican priest and Christian socialist St John Hornby (1867–1946), British businessman St John Horsfall (1910-1949)...
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Trust. Simon Michael Hornby was born on 29 December 1934 in London. He was the son of Michael Hornby and grandson of St John Hornby. He grew up on his father's...
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Brigadier General Edmund John Phipps-Hornby, VC, CB, CMG, DL (31 December 1857 – 13 December 1947) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria...
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the end of the 14th century Hornby castle belonged to the St Quintin family, until heiress Margaret Quintin married John Conyers (died 1422). It was largely...
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Emily Hornby (1833 – 1906) was an English travel writer and mountaineer. She was born December 1833 in Liverpool where her father, Thomas Hornby M.A. (1801-1890)...
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viewpoints? (2006). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. O. Univ.-Prof.Dr. Mary SNELL-HORNBY, M.A.(Hons.), B.Phil. (St And.) Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback...
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Liverpool, Lancashire, Hornby was the son of John Oswald Hornby, a provision merchant and his wife Martha Hornby (née Thomlinson), though this date has been...
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St Margaret's Church is in Main Street, Hornby, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I...
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Twiggy (redirect from Lesley Hornby)
Dame Lesley Lawson DBE (née Hornby; born 19 September 1949), widely known by the nickname Twiggy, is an English model, actress, and singer. She was a British...
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Authentic Deeds of Jesus. San Francisco: Harper; "John the Baptist" cameo, p. 268 Compilations (1983). Hornby, Helen (ed.). Lights of Guidance: A Baháʼí Reference...
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of St John Hornby and his wife Cicely Rachel Emily Barclay. He was educated at Sandroyd School. Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Hornby was...
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St Mary's Church Hornby, is the parish church for the village of Hornby, Richmondshire in North Yorkshire, England. The church is one of six in the Benefice...
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1906–1907: St John Hornby, of Shelley House, Chelsea Embankment, SW 1907–1908: Robert Lydston Newman, of 11 Cadogan Square, SW 1908–1909: John Murray, of...
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Albert Neilson Hornby, nicknamed Monkey Hornby (10 February 1847 – 17 December 1925) was one of the best-known sportsmen in England during the nineteenth...
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was the author of A Manual of marks on pottery and porcelain (1894). St John Hornby called Hooper almost the last of the old school of wood-engravers and...
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Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1910–1971), who married firstly Antony Hornby, second son of St John Hornby, of Shelley House, Chelsea and Chantemarle, Dorset, on 17...
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Hornby were executors of Lady Margaret's will (she died in 1509), arranging the foundation of St John's College, Cambridge using her estate. Hornby was...
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Lord-in-waiting (1939–1940) St John Hornby (1867–1946), High Sheriff of the County of London (1906–1907) Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens MP (1912–1980)...
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Hornby is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from the 93rd district. Hornby earned a degree from St....
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Sir John Reginald Hornby Nott-Bower KCVO OStJ QPM (16 March 1892 – 3 October 1972) was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London...
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printing from old warped blocks. Her experience of a real private press, St John Hornby's Ashendene Press, was rather more mixed. Raverat spent a year producing...
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Cockerell. By 1900, Cockerell was exhibiting her work, and in 1901, St John Hornby, the founder of Ashendene Press, hired her to illuminate an Ashendene...
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Hornby Castle is a country house, developed from a medieval castle, standing to the east of the village of Hornby in the Lune Valley, Lancashire, England...
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Rosamund Holland-Martin (category Hornby family)
fifth child of St John Hornby, a founding partner of W. H. Smith and a deputy vice-chairman of the NSPCC, and his wife, Cecily. St John Hornby was a public...
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Alfred Fairbank (redirect from Alfred John Fairbank)
Georgics of Virgil, vellum, illuminated by Louise Powell, commissioned by St John Hornby 1939, Book of Names, presented to Tom Jones C.H.. decorated by Berthold...
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