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Hugh Leycester Hornby

(1888-1965), Bishop of Hulme

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Hugh Leycester Hornby, by Walter Stoneman - NPG x188304

Hugh Leycester Hornby

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 9 October 1946
NPG x188304

Hugh Leycester Hornby, by Walter Stoneman - NPG x188305

Hugh Leycester Hornby

by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 9 October 1946
NPG x188305

Hugh Leycester Hornby, by Elliott & Fry - NPG x100586

Hugh Leycester Hornby

by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 14 July 1952
NPG x100586

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William F L Bigwood

12 November 2017, 20:51

Hugh Leycester Hornby was born on 20 November 1888, at St Michael's on Wyre in Lancashire, eldest son of the Ven Phipps John Hornby, of the Parish and Archdeacon of Lancaster, and Agnes Leycester-Penrhyn. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. In the Church, he firs served as curate of St Anne's on Sea and when war came in 1914 served as a chaplain in France, being awarded the MC in 1916. After the war he followed his father as vicar of St Michael's, subsequently serving from 1930 as Rector of Bury. He was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Hulme in 1945. In 1953 he retired to Dunster in Somerset where he died on 24 March 1965. In 1921 he married Katharine Rebecca May and by her had four sons.