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Frederick John Horniman (8 October 1835 – 5 March 1906) was an
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Frederick John Horniman (8 October 1835 – 5 March 1906) was an English
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tea trader and founder of the Horniman Museum in London. He was brought up and lived in Croydon, Park Hill area.
Life
Frederick, born inBridgwater
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, was born into a Quaker family, the son of John Horniman
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, who established Horniman's Tea
Hornimans is a brand of tea currently owned by JDE Peet's.
History
The original tea trading and blending business 'Horniman's Tea Company' was founded in 1826 in Newport, Isle of Wight, by trader John Horniman. In 1852, he moved the company t ...
, a tea
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business using mechanical packaging. By 1891, it was said to be the biggest tea company in the world.
He founded the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, south London
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. In 1901, he gave the freehold estate, museum and the art and natural history collections to London County Council
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for use by the people of London.Michael Horniman, ‘Horniman, Frederick John (1835–1906)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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, and Liberal
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for Penryn and Falmouth in Cornwall
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from 1895 until 1906.
In 1859 he married Rebekah Emslie (1825–1895).‘Horniman, Annie Elizabeth Fredericka (1860–1937)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200accessed 27 Feb 2013
/ref> Their son Emslie John Horniman (1863–1932) ''Who was Who 1897–2007'' was Liberal MP for Chelsea (1906–10). He continued to develop the museum, and was a noted art collector and patron in his own right, who rebuilt his homes at
Burford Priory
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in Oxfordshire
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(under Walter Godfrey
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) and at Garden Corner, Chelsea (under C.F.A. Voysey
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). Their daughter, Annie Horniman
Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH (3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937) was an English theatre patron and manager. She established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and founded the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain at the Gaiety ...
(1860–1937), worked in theatre, being a founder of the Abbey Theatre
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, Dublin
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His first wife died in 1895, and in 1897 he married Minnie Louisa Bennett; they had two daughters.
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