Thomas Horner (Mells Manor)
Thomas Horner may refer to: * Thomas Horner (armourer), character (an armorer) in Henry VI, Part 2 * Thomas Horner (Mells Manor), man connected to Little Jack Horner * Thomas Strangways Horner, English MP for Somerset in 1713 and 1727 * Thomas Hornor (surveyor) Thomas Hornor (1785–1844) was an English land surveyor, artist, and inventor. Born on 12 June 1785 into the Quaker family of a grocer in Hull, Hornor (sometimes spelled Horner) learned surveying and engineering from his brother-in-law. Soon aft ...

Thomas Horner (armourer)
Thomas Horner may refer to: * Thomas Horner (armourer), character (an armorer) in Henry VI, Part 2 * Thomas Horner (Mells Manor), man connected to Little Jack Horner * Thomas Strangways Horner, English MP for Somerset in 1713 and 1727 * Thomas Hornor (surveyor) Thomas Hornor (1785–1844) was an English land surveyor, artist, and inventor. Born on 12 June 1785 into the Quaker family of a grocer in Hull, Hornor (sometimes spelled Horner) learned surveying and engineering from his brother-in-law. Soon aft ...

Henry VI, Part 2
''Henry VI, Part 2'' (often written as ''2 Henry VI'') is a Shakespearean history, history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas ''Henry VI, Part 1'' deals primarily with the Hundred Years' War#French victory: 1429–1453, loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses, and ''Henry VI, Part 3'' deals with the horrors of that conflict, ''2 Henry VI'' focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, the death of his trusted adviser Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, the rise of the Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, Duke of York and the inevitability of armed conflict. As such, the play culminates with the opening battle of the War, the First Battle of St Albans (1455). Although the ''Henry VI'' trilogy may not have been written in chronological order, the three plays are often grouped together with Richard III (play ...
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Thomas Horner (Mells Manor)
Thomas Horner may refer to: * Thomas Horner (armourer), character (an armorer) in Henry VI, Part 2 * Thomas Horner (Mells Manor), man connected to Little Jack Horner * Thomas Strangways Horner, English MP for Somerset in 1713 and 1727 * Thomas Hornor (surveyor) Thomas Hornor (1785–1844) was an English land surveyor, artist, and inventor. Born on 12 June 1785 into the Quaker family of a grocer in Hull, Hornor (sometimes spelled Horner) learned surveying and engineering from his brother-in-law. Soon aft ...

Little Jack Horner
"Little Jack Horner" is a popular English nursery rhyme with the Roud Folk Song Index number 13027. First mentioned in the 18th century, it was early associated with acts of opportunism, particularly in politics. Moralists also rewrote and expanded the poem so as to counter its celebration of greediness. The name of Jack Horner also came to be applied to a completely different and older poem on a Folklore, folkloric theme; and in the 19th century it was claimed that the rhyme was originally composed in satirical reference to the dishonest actions of Thomas Horner in the Tudor period. Lyrics and melody The song’s most common lyrics are: It was first documented in full in the nursery rhyme collection ''Mother Goose's melody, or, Sonnets for the cradle'', which may date from 1765, although the earliest surviving English edition is from 1791. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his ...
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Thomas Strangways Horner
Thomas Strangways Horner ( Horner; 1688–1741), of Mells, Somerset and Melbury, Dorset, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1713 and 1741. Horner was baptized on 3 July 1688, the second, but eldest surviving son of George Horner, MP of Mells, Somerset and his wife Elizabeth Fortescue, daughter of Robert Fortescue of Filleigh, Devon. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 14 May 1705, aged 17. In 1708, he succeeded his father to Mells Manor. He married Susanna Strangeways, daughter of Thomas Strangways of Melbury House, Dorset in 1713. Horner was High Sheriff of Somerset for the year 1711 to 1712. In 1713 he became a freeman of Bath. At the 1713 British general election, he was returned unopposed as a Tory Member of Parliament for Somerset. He did not make any impression in Parliament. At the 1715 British general election Horner was returned in a contest as Tory MP for Wells. Shortly after, he was nearly arrested on the d ...
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