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'''William Hornby''' (baptised 11 March 1723, [[Snaith]], died 18 November 1803, The Hook, near [[Titchfield]], Hampshire)<ref name=Titchfield>[http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/ths/page20.phtml Titchfield Families: The Hornby Family] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128174152/http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/ths/page20.phtml |date=28 November 2011 }}, revised 25 December 2005</ref> was an English [[Governor of Bombay]] from 1771 to 1784.<br />
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==Governorship==<br />
William Hornby joined the [[East India Company]] as a writer (clerk) in 1740, and rose to become Governor of Bombay in 1771.<ref name=Titchfield /> As Governor of Bombay, he is best remembered by the [[Vellard]] north of [[Cumballa Hill]] which was constructed at his behest against the wishes of the [[British East India Company]]. One of the first large works of civil engineering in the city, it transformed the geography of the islands by opening up the low-lying marshy areas of [[Mahalaxmi, Mumbai|Mahalaxmi]] and [[Kamathipura]] for inhabitation on its completion in 1784. He was also the first governor to move his official residence from the Fort area to [[Parel]]. In a sense, this was also to change the demographics of the city by starting a northward move.<br />
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An intriguing dead-end of information is the statement attributed to John Murray, that "The Hornby diamond, brought from the East Indies by the Hon. William Hornby, [[Governor of Bombay]], in 1775, weighs 36 carats [7.2 g], and is now, I believe, the property of the [[Afsharid dynasty|Shah of Persia]]."<br />
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==Return==<br />
William Hornby returned to [[England]] in 1783, when the government granted him land near Titchfield, South Hampshire. He set out to build a country mansion, which he called The Hook, built in the style of the Government House in Bombay and removed the remains of a medieval village to create a parkland for himself. His country house was completed in 1790, at a cost of over £12,000.<ref name=Titchfield /> He died there in 1803.<br />
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One of Hornby's grandchildren, through his daughter, was the novelist and playwright [[Ann Doherty]].<ref>Brookmans Park Newsletter [http://www.brookmans.com/environment/gobions/ch1.shtml]</ref><br />
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*[http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/william-hornby.html William Hornby]<br />
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