Background
Hornby was the second son of the industrialist and politician William Henry Hornby and his wife Susannah née Birley.
Hornby was the second son of the industrialist and politician William Henry Hornby and his wife Susannah née Birley.
He was educated at Harrow and became a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) for Lancashire.
He sat in the House of Commons from 1869 to 1874. On 16 March 1869, the result of the 1868 general election in the borough of Blackburn was declared null and void, after an election petition had been lodged. 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.
Edward Hornby was elected at the resulting by-election on 31 March 1869, along with Joseph Feilden"s son Henry Master Feilden. and Hornby had asserted that he had "no vain idea" that his own merits were enough to qualify him as an Member of Parliament. He held the seat until 1874, and did not contest the 1874 general election.
Hornby was a brother of England cricket team captain A. North. Hornby and he played in one first-class match himself in 1862.
20th United Kingdom Parliament.