RARE “Member of Parliament\" Edmund Hornby Signed Free Frank Dated 1819 For Sale

Up for sale "Member of Parliament" Edmund Hornby Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1819.  

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Edmund Hornby (1773-1857)

of Dalton Hall near

Burton, Westmorland, was a Member of from 1812 to 1826. He was a nephew and son-in-law of Edward

Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851). He was the

eldest son and heir of Rev. Geoffrey Hornby (1750-1812), of Scale Hall,

near Lancaster in Lancashire, High Sheriff of Lancashire in

1774 and a Deputy Lieutenant of

Lancashire, Colonel of a regiment of Lancashire militia, 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 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).