Hugh Hornby

Last updated

Hugh Leycester Hornby (20 November 1888 - 24 March 1965) was an Anglican clergyman.

Hornby was born at St. Michael's-on-Wyre, near Preston, Lancashire. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was curate of St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire before the First World War, and in 1910 joined up as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, K.O.R. Lancaster Regiment, T.A. During the war he served as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces(TCF), being awarded the Military Cross in France in 1916 and becoming an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces when the war ended. The citation for his MC reads ‘For conspicuous gallantry. He volunteered to act as a stretcher-bearer, and did fine work at great personal risk. He is constantly among the men in the trenches, and never thinks of his comfort or safety' [1] (Later, in 1951, he also became an honorary chaplain to the Lancashire Fusiliers.) Also in 1919, he succeeded his father as Vicar of St Michael's on Wyre, a living he held until 1930. He later became the living's joint-patron with his younger brother Edward Windham Hornby (succeeding their uncle) in 1944.

On 4 January 1921 he married Katharine Rebecca May (1894–1979). Their eldest son (born during Hugh's time as Vicar of St Michael's on Wyre) was Richard Hornby, later a Conservative politician. Their other three children were James William, Robert Hugh and Peter Edward.

After his time at St Michael's on Wyre, Hugh became Rector and later also Rural Dean of Bury (1930–1953 and 1934-45 respectively) and later Suffragan Bishop of Hulme (1945–1953). He also became Proctor in Convocation in the dioceses of Blackburn then (1934–45) Manchester, as well as a member of the Church Assembly (1933–45), and chairman of the Manchester Diocesan Church Building Committee, the governors of Bury Grammar School (1930–53), and of the governors of Church Central School, Bury. He retired to Suffolk in 1953, and died at Dunster.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Howson (priest)</span> English cleric and antiquary (1816–85)

John Saul Howson, British divine, was born at Giggleswick-on-Craven, Yorkshire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">A. N. Hornby</span> English athlete

Albert Neilson Hornby, nicknamed Monkey Hornby was one of the best-known sportsmen in England during the nineteenth century excelling in both rugby and cricket. He was the first of only two men to captain the country at both rugby and cricket but is also remembered as the England cricket captain whose side lost the Test match which gave rise to the Ashes, at home against the Australians in 1882. Additionally, he played football for Blackburn Rovers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Hornby</span> British politician

Richard Phipps Hornby was a British Conservative politician and businessman. He was Member of Parliament for Tonbridge for over 17½ years, from June 1956 to February 1974, holding a junior ministerial position for a year in the mid-1960s. He worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before, during, and after his career in Parliament, and was Chairman of the Halifax Building Society from 1983 to 1990.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James McGuigan</span>

James Charles McGuigan was a Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the longest-serving Archbishop of Toronto, serving for almost 37 years from 1934 to 1971. He became the first English-speaking cardinal from Canada in 1946.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Havard</span> Welsh bishop and rugby union footballer

William Thomas Havard was a Welsh clergyman and rugby union international player. He served as a military chaplain during the First World War, and later as Bishop of St Asaph and then Bishop of St David's in the Church in Wales.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Inskip-with-Sowerby</span> Parish in Wyre Borough, Lancashire, England

Inskip-with-Sowerby is a civil parish in the Borough of Wyre, in Lancashire, England. A part of the Fylde, the parish includes the village of Inskip and the hamlets Crossmoor to the west and Sowerby to the east. Also Inskip Moss Side lies about a mile north-west of the village at grid reference SD452391. In 2011 it had a population of 840.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 12th Baronet</span>

Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, 12th Baronet was a British Anglican bishop who served in the Church of England in the early 20th century.

William Alonzo Parker was a former Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Wilson (bishop)</span> British Anglican bishop

Piers Holt Wilson was an Anglican bishop in the mid part of the 20th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles D'Arcy</span>

Charles Frederick D'Arcy was a Church of Ireland bishop. He was the Bishop of Clogher from 1903 to 1907 when he was translated to become Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin before then becoming the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore. He was then briefly the Archbishop of Dublin and finally, from 1920 until his death, Archbishop of Armagh. He was also a theologian, author and botanist.

Alfred Carey Wollaston Rose was the sixth Bishop of Dover, England, in the modern era, from 1935 to 1956.

John Charles Halland How OGS was an Anglican bishop.

Harry William Blackburne DSO, MC was an Anglican clergyman, Dean of Bristol from 1934 to 1951.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lauchlan Watt</span> Scottish minister

Lauchlan MacLean Watt FRSE was the minister of Glasgow Cathedral from 1923–34, and the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1933. He was a published poet and author, and a literary critic.

Spencer Cecil Carpenter was an Anglican priest and author. He was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1935 to 1950.

Richard Henry Malden, BD,, Dean of Wells, was a prominent Anglican churchman, editor, classical and Biblical scholar, and a writer of ghost stories.

Phipps John Hornby was Archdeacon of Lancaster from 1909 to his death.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland</span> Church in West Yorkshire, England

The Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, West Yorkshire, England, is an Anglican church. It is an Arts and Crafts building in Gothic Revival style, designed by James Mallinson and William Swinden Barber, and completed in 1870. The building was funded by William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, and it was consecrated by Robert Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon. The total height of the tower and spire is 109 feet (33 m), and the nave contains an arch-braced hammerbeam roof.

Sidney Nowell Rostron was a Church of England priest, theologian, and academic. He was the first Principal of St John's College, Durham, serving from 1909 to 1911. He then returned to parish ministry and was vicar of a number of parishes. During World War I, he served with the Army Chaplains' Department as a military chaplain. From 1928 to 1942, he was additionally Whitehead Professor of Pastoralia at the London College of Divinity.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angelo Raine</span>


Angelo Raine was a British clergyman, antiquarian, and archivist.

References

  1. London Gazette,2.7.1919