• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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