William Henry Hornby (1805–1884)

William Henry Hornby (1805–4th September 1884) an English cotton spinner, industrialist and politician.

[2] During the 1820s the Hornby family business, a partnership with John Birley, expanded with the construction of a cotton spinning mill out of the centre of Blackburn, in the Brookhouse area on the River Blakewater.

The original water mill was phased out, with power looms introduced in 1830, and a steam engine in 1841.

Another son, Albert, was the England cricket captain who lost the Test match which gave rise to the Ashes, at home against the Australians in 1882.

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