Emslie John Horniman (1863 – 11 July 1932) was a British anthropologist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician.
[1] He spent his youth travelling widely, visiting Egypt, Morocco, Central Africa, India, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, China, Japan, and the United States.
[1] He served only one term in the Commons, losing the seat to Conservative opponent, Samuel Hoare, in January 1910.
£10,000 was given to the London County Council to build an extension to the Horniman Museum, based in Forest Hill.
[6] In 1944 the Royal Anthropological Institute established the Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund in his memory to "promote the study of the growth of civilisations, habits and customs, religious and physical characteristics of the non-European peoples and of prehistoric and non-industrial man in Europe".