Kane William Horneck (1726–1753) was an officer in the

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Life

He was a son of

William Horneck William Horneck (1685-1746) was a British Army engineer of German descent. Life The son of the German-born preacher Anthony Horneck, he learned military science under John Churchill and designed works in Britain, Newfoundland, Minorca and els ...

and a grandson of

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. He married Hannah Muggles (1727–1803) from Devon and they had issue: *Catherine (1750–1799); married satirist

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*Mary (1753–1840); in 1770 traveled to France with

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and his family, to whom she was introduced by Joshua Reynolds; married Colonel Francis Edward Gwyn in 1778 He was close friends with

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, who on Kane's death became his daughters' guardian. Just before his death Horneck had inspected the defences of

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- after his death his friend and fellow engineer officer Leonard Smelt worked up Horneck's sketches and memoranda into a full report. Hannah was also a friend of

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and

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, who painted Hannah and both her daughters.

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