St John Hornby information

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Authentic Deeds of Jesus. San Francisco: Harper; "John the Baptist" cameo, p. 268 Compilations (1983). Hornby, Helen (ed.). Lights of Guidance: A Baháʼí Reference...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...