Edgar Horne

Sir William Edgar Horne, 1st Baronet (21 January 1856 – 26 September 1941)[1] was a British businessman and Unionist politician.

[6] He was a member of the council of the British Overseas Bank,[8] president of the Surveyor's Institution (1911), and vice-president of the National Service League.

[11] At the 1906 general election Horne stood unsuccessfully as a Unionist candidate in the Barnstaple division of Devon,[5] a safe seat for the Liberal Party.

[16] In the 1929 New Year Honours list, which had been delayed until March owing to the illness of King George V, it was announced that Horne was to be made a Baronet "for public and political services".

[23] The house was leased to a preparatory school[24] called Aldro,[25] which bought the freehold after his death, and the rest of the land was sold separately.