He was educated at Harrow and became a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Lancashire.
[3] The two Conservatives who had been elected, Joseph Feilden and Edward Hornby's father William Henry Hornby, were unseated when Mr Justice Willes found that there had been widespread intimidation of voters.
[5][6] Both candidates had appealed for support as a tribute to their fathers,[5] and Hornby had asserted that he had "no vain idea" that his own merits were enough to qualify him as an MP.
[8] He also played in Gentlemen of the North teams and at county level for Cheshire while playing at club level for Nantwich, and made a singe appearance for Shropshire, taking 8 wickets, in 1867.
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