Edwin Henry Horne

Edwin Henry Horne (1843–1915) was an English architect working in the Victorian era and best known for the six spacious new station buildings opened by the North London Railway between 1870 and 1872 to reflect the growing importance of the line.

In a career cut short at the age of 37, Horne's last major work was the heritage listed church, St John's Ealing.

Following some early independent work, he was engaged by the NLR to replace six of the earlier wooden stations with distinctive buildings to project the Company's image and accommodate the increasing number of passengers using the line.

"Sadly the magnificent station buildings of the North London Railway designed by E. H. Horne in the Venetian Gothic style and constructed of white Suffolk brick, Portland stone and terracotta have mostly gone.

"[3] In the 1870s Horne took on assistants Charles Rennels Hancock and Alfred Granby Winsor and in 1874 he was chosen from a field of twelve architects to design and supervise the building of St John's Church, Ealing.

[4] On 19 April that year The Illustrated London News carried a detailed description, naming Horne as architect.

Although temporary repairs were carried out in the post-war years, Highbury & Islington was never restored to its full former use as a passenger station.