Edmund Hornby (politician)

Arms of Hornby: Or, two chevronels between three bugle-horns sable stringed gules on a chief of the second as many eagle's legs erased of the first^[1]

Edmund Hornby (1773-1857) of Dalton Hall near Burton, Westmorland, was a Member of Parliament for Preston, Lancashire, from 1812 to 1826.^[2] He was a nephew and son-in-law of Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851).

Origins

He was the eldest son and heir of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby (1750-1812), of Scale Hall, near Lancaster^[3] in Lancashire, High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1774 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, Colonel of a regiment of Lancashire militia,^[4] by his wife Lucy Smith-Stanley (d.1833) a daughter of James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange (1716–1771), (son and heir apparent of Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (1689-1776) of Knowsley Hall in Lancashire) and a sister of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834). Edmund's sister Charlotte Margaret Hornby (d.1817) married her first cousin Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851), KG, and was the mother of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869), thrice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1852, 1858–9, 1866–8), thus Edmund's nephew. One of Edmund's younger brothers was Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby (1785-1867).^[5]

Marriage and children

He married his first cousin Lady Charlotte Stanley (d.1805), a daughter of Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752-1834), by whom he had issue including:^[6]

• Edmund George Hornby (1799-1865) of Dalton Hall, eldest son and heir, a Member of Parliament for Warrington and Constable of Lancaster Castle.

References

1. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1156
2. Escott, Margaret, biography of "Hornby, Edmund (1773-1857), of Dalton Hall, Westmld." published in: History of Parliament: House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009 [1]
3. "Scale Hall, Lancaster, Lancashire".
4. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1155, pedigree of "Hornby of Dalton Hall"
5. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1156, pedigree of "Hornby of Lordington"
6. Escott, Margaret, biography of "Hornby, Edmund (1773-1857), of Dalton Hall, Westmld." published in: History of Parliament: House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009 [2]