Horne, Richard Henry

Richard Henry “Hengist” Horne, 1802-1884

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Explanations:
Columns:R [Role]; S [Sources].
Roles: = Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.
Abbreviations: BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; 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; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.
Sources (S, S1, S2): = Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.
Other Symbols: = External link.
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.
Unconfirmed:All text in magenta is unconfirmed.
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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 [PROV; 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⇑ Richard Henry Horne [Find a Grave; 12 January 2024].
12⇑ Richard Henry Horne [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.