• 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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  • Michael Charles St John Hornby was the son of St John Hornby and his wife Cicely Rachel Emily Barclay. In 1934, he purchased Pusey House near Faringdon...
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    Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby GCB (10 February 1825 – 3 March 1895) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he saw action...
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  • St John Hornby and his wife Cicely Rachel Emily Barclay. He was educated at Sandroyd School. Winchester College and New College, Oxford. Hornby was a senior...
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    (1933–1997), billionaire financier, and his family lived at Ormeley Lodge. Emily Hornby (1833–1906), mountaineer and travel writer, died at the Manor House in...
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    younger Miss Emily Roberts, who at the time was 20, in Shanghai. She survived Hornby, dying in 1909. His elder daughter Constance Hornby married in March...
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    hall in Hardman Street. A society had been proposed a month earlier by Emily Hornby at a public meeting and after a unanimous vote, was founded by Edith...
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    from 1786 to his death in 1812. Frances Margaret Hornby (1843–1924), youngest sister of Emily Hornby, lived here from 1909 until her death in 1924. The...
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  • Fever Pitch (1997 film) (category Films based on works by Nick Hornby)
    and Ruth Gemmell, based loosely on Nick Hornby's best-selling memoir, Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life (1992). Hornby adapted the book for the screen and fictionalised...
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  • 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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    he married his first cousin Charlotte Margaret Hornby (d.1817), second daughter of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby (1750–1812), of Scale Hall, near Lancaster in Lancashire...
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    B., J.P. Brother of Emily Frances Coles See children of Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby G.C.B See children of Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby G.C.B By way of his...
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    songwriting projects with actor William Shatner and authors such as Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. Since May 2017, he has been the first artistic advisor...
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    partially located in the library from 1910-1920. The University Librarian Hugh Hornby Langton, the lead librarian of the University of Toronto Libraries, served...
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  • Rebecca Roanhorse Marlon James Jonathan Lethem Sarah MacLean Riley Sager Nick Hornby Scott Turow Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Gary Shteyngart Jessamine Chan Alma...
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    Musical or Comedy for his performance in High Fidelity (2000), based on Nick Hornby's novel about Rob, a record store owner, and the history of his failed relationships...
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    short stories edited by Nick Hornby and published to benefit the TreeHouse Trust to aid autistic children. He met Hornby during the filming of the original...
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    Austen; Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence; High Fidelity by Nick Hornby; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Life Class by Pat Barker; The Moment...
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    Neumann Portland 1978 2024–present — — Biden 13 Senior Judge D. Brock Hornby inactive 1944 1990–2010 1996–2003 2010–present G.H.W. Bush 15 Senior Judge...
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  • Hallows, she participates in the Battle of Hogwarts. Katie is portrayed by Emily Dale in the first two Harry Potter films. She is portrayed by Georgina Leonidas...
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  • Muriel Emily Herbert (1897 – 1 May 1984) was a British composer of the early 20th century. Much of her work is for solo voice and piano, with art song...
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  • Phipps Hornby and his wife Emily Francis (née Coles), the sister of Captain Cowper Coles. He was the elder brother of Brig.-Gen. Edmund Phipps-Hornby, VC...
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    much point in me pretending." Writing for the New Yorker in 2000, Nick Hornby wrote that Mann was "a fine, occasionally brilliant singer-songwriter, nothing...
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  • John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth), the long-lost son of Jack Sugden (Clive Hornby) and half-brother of Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins) arrived. He was followed...
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  • Brooklyn (film) (category Films with screenplays by Nick Hornby)
    romantic period drama film directed by John Crowley and written by Nick Hornby, based on the 2009 novel by Colm Tóibín. A co-production between the United...
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  • States have exceeded 86,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Nick Hornby, writing in Spin, proclaimed that on the album "England's unofficial poet...
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    known as Marcus in the film version of author Nick Hornby's ABOUT A BOY. Now he narrates Hornby's latest novel while still a teenager himself--not surprisingly...
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  • Windsor (Ben Freeman) and rents a room from Sarah and Jack Sugden (Clive Hornby). He develops feelings for Sarah and they soon begin an affair. Sarah agrees...
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    middle of the island. Regular ferry service links Denman Island to both Hornby Island from Gravelly Bay on the east side of Denman and across Baynes Sound...
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    Obama, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Howard Stern, Rob Thomas and Nick Hornby. In August 2015, former President Barack Obama included the band's song...
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