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Emslie John Horniman (1863 – 11 July 1932) was a British anthropologist, philanthropist and
Emslie John Horniman (1863 – 11 July 1932) was a British anthropologist, philanthropist and Liberal Party
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politician.
The son of Frederick Horniman, sometime Liberal member of parliament for Penryn and Falmouth, Horniman was educated privately and at the Slade School of Fine Art
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. He spent his youth travelling widely, visiting Egypt
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, Morocco
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, Central Africa, India
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, Burma
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, the Dutch East Indies
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, China, Japan, and the United States. Like his father, the founder of the Horniman Museum
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, he was an enthusiastic collector of arts and "curiosities".
In 1898 he was elected to the London County Council
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to represent Chelsea
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, he was re-elected in 1901 and 1904.
At the 1906 general election Horniman was chosen to contest the parliamentary constituency of Chelsea by the Liberals. There was a large swing to the party, and he was elected, unseating the Conservative
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MP, Charles Whitmore. He served only one term in the Commons
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, losing the seat to Conservative opponent, Samuel Hoare, in January 1910.
In 1911 he laid out and donated a public park in north Kensington to the London County Council, since known as Emslie Horniman's Pleasance
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.
Horniman inherited the Horniman's Tea
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History
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company founded by his grandfather, and in 1912 purchased Burford Priory
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, Oxfordshire from Colonel Frank de Sales la Terrière. He sold Horniman's Tea in 1918 to rival J. Lyons & Co.
He married Laura Isabel Plomer, and the couple had three children. He died at his London residence on Chelsea Embankment
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in July 1932. He left an estate of over £300,000 and a number of artworks, most of which he bequeathed to the National Art Collections Fund
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. £10,000 was given to the London County Council to build an extension to the Horniman Museum
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style. It has displays of anthropology, natural history and musical ...
, based in Forest Hill. In 1944 the Royal Anthropological Institute
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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".
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Horniman, Emslie John 1863 births 1932 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1906–1910 Members of London County Council Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art People of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England