Horne, Richard Henry

Richard Henry “Hengist” Horne, 1802-1884

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Roles (R): = Government Office (Paid),   = Government Duties (Unpaid),   = On leave,   = To be determined,   = Squatter/Grazier,   = Private enterprise,   = Parliament/Council,
= British Army,   = Royal Marines,   = British Militia,   = State Militia,   = East India Company Army,   = Royal Navy,   = Other Maritime,
= Education,   = Army Education,   = Navy Education,   = Immigration,   = Emigration,   = Other voyage.
Abbreviations: BB = Blue Book,  CL = Commissioner of Crown Lands,  CP = Chinese Protector,  CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions,  GC = Gold Commissioner,  GR = Gold Receiver,
GW = Warden of the Gold Fields,  JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate),  PM = Police Magistrate,
FN = Footnotes,  PSL = Public Service List  S/S1/S2 = Source,  TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.
Appointments: = Appointed,   = Reappointed (under new legislation),   = Promoted,   = Demoted,   = Redesignated,   = Succeeded,   = Transferred,   = Replaced.
= Position made permanent,   = Paid as (role).
Sources (S): = Blue Book,   = Blue Book derived,   = Government Gazette,   = Government Gazette derived,   = Public Service List,   = Public Service List derived,
= Report,   = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document,   = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract,   = Cemetery,   = Census,   = Legal,
= Newspaper family notice,   = Newspaper article,   = Book/Magazine,   = Other,   = Unconfirmed,   = Military service record,   = Internet.
Dates:Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format,  "Ongoing" = Continues into next calendar year,  New date,  Date changed in source,  Date died,  Date to be confirmed.
"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.
Other Symbols: = External link,   = Army promotion by purchase of commission,   = By exchange.
Unconfirmed:All text in magenta is unconfirmed information.
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Life Events

Born:31 December 1802Fore Street, Edmonton, London, England [residence] [01].
Baptised:14 February 1803Dr Williams' Library (Protestant Dissenting), London, England [02] [03]
Married:17 June 1847St Pancras Old Church, St Pancras, Middlesex, England, to Catherine "Kate" Clare St George Foggo [1826-1893] [04].
Arrived:20 September 1852Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the ship Kent. Departed Plymouth, 10 June 1852, via Calcutta [05] [06] [07].
Departed:12 June 1869Returned to England on the clipper ship Lady Jocelyn. Arrived at Gravesend, 26 September 1869 [08] [09].
Died:13 March 188416 Trinity Hill, Margate, Kent, England [holiday residence], aged 81 years [10].
Buried:March 1884St John's Cemetery, Margate, Kent, England [Grave: Section D, Grave N 603] [11].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:Gold Commissioner:1851185218531854

Richard Henry “Hengist” Horne [12]

Career

OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1819-04-051820-12-2416Gentleman Cadet, Royal Military CollegeBritish ArmySandhurstFailed.
1820185317TBD
1853-06-071853-12-31Junior Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold Fields
1854-01-01Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold Fields

References

Notes

Notes
01⇑ England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936, [Ancestry (Membership required) 12 January 2024].
02⇑ England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936, [Ancestry (Membership required) 12 January 2024].
03⇑ Blainey (1968) has Edmonton Parish Church of All Saints, but this is incorrect.
04⇑ London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938, [Ancestry (Membership required) 12 January 2024].
05⇑ Authors for Australia; The Argus (Melbourne), 11 September 1852, p 5 [Trove, 21 April 2023].
06⇑ Marten A Syme; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports, Volume 2 1846-1855; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1987; p 124.
07⇑ Arrivals information is missing from the Trove copy of The Argus. Alfred William Howitt was on the same voyage.
08⇑ Lady Jocelyn Passenger List, Public Record Office of Victoria, VPRS 948, January-June 1869 [ 12 January 2024].
09⇑ Shipping Intelligence; Morning Advertiser (London), 28 September 1869, p 7 [Find My Past (Membership required) , 12 January 2024].
10⇑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995, [Ancestry (Membership required) 12 January 2024]. This record has the correct date and place of death, but is incorrectly indexed as Middlesex.
11⇑ Find a Grave - Richard Henry Horne [ 12 January 2024].
12⇑ National Galleries of Scotland [ 27 October 2024].

Further Reading

Biography:Ann Blainey; The Farthing Poet: The Biography of Richard Hengist Horne, 1802-1884, a lesser literary lion; Longmans, London, 1968.
Biography:Ann Blainey; Horne, Richard Henry (1802-1884); Australian Dictionary of Biography [ 23 February 2024].
Profile:Horne, Richard Henry (Hengist) (1802-1884); in: Joan Kerr (Editor); The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992; pp 373-374.
Profile:Horne, Richard Henry; in: H Morin Humphreys (Editor); Men of the Time in Australia: Victorian Series [Second Edition]; McCarron, Bird, and Co, Melbourne, 1882; Part 1, pp lxxii, lxxiii.
Profile:Richard Henry Horne; Wikipedia [ 23 October 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-01-12Life Events updated and references added.