Frederick John Horniman

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Frederick John Horniman

Frederick John Horniman (8 October 1835 – 5 March 1906) was an English

England

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tea trader, collector and public benefactor.

He was the son of John Horniman, who established a tea

Tea

Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
business using mechanical packaging. In 1891, it was said to be the biggest tea company in the world.

He founded the Horniman Museum

Horniman Museum

The Horniman Museum is a museum in Forest Hill, London, South London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Arts and Crafts movement style....
in Forest Hill

Forest Hill, London

File:Ward of Forest Hill.GIFForest Hill is a suburb and Wards of the United Kingdom in the London Borough of Lewisham, situated between Dulwich and Sydenham in southeast London, England....
, south London

London

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Frederick John Horniman (8 October 1835 – 5 March 1906) was an English

England

Tea

Horniman Museum

Forest Hill, London

London

London County Council

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for use by the people of London .

He was a member of the London County Council

London County Council

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
for Penryn and Falmouth

Penryn and Falmouth (UK Parliament constituency)

Penryn and Falmouth was the name of a constituency represented in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1950....
in Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
from 1895 until 1906.

His son Emslie John Horniman (1863 – 1932) was Liberal MP for Chelsea

Chelsea (UK Parliament constituency)

Chelsea was a borough constituency, represented in the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1867 for the United Kingdom general election, 1868, when it returned two Member of Parliament , elected by the bloc vote system of election....
(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

Burford

Burford is a Cotswolds town in Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 30 kilometres west of Oxford on the River Windrush and is a popular centre for tourists who visit the Cotswolds, with many antique shops on the main street....
Priory in Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire....
(under Walter Godfrey

Walter Godfrey

Walter Hindes Godfrey CBE, FSA, FRIBA , was an English architect, antiquary, and architectural and topographical historian. He was also a landscape architect and designer, and an accomplished draftsman and illustrator....
) and at Garden Corner, Chelsea (under C.F.A. Voysey).

His daughter, Annie Horniman

Annie Horniman

Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman Order of the Companions of Honour 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 Theatre, Manchester in Manchester....
(1860-1937), worked in theatre, being a founder of the Abbey Theatre

Abbey Theatre

The Abbey Theatre , also known as the National Theatre of Ireland , is a theatre located in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The Abbey first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904, and despite losing its original building to a fire in 1951, has remained active to the present day....
, Dublin

Dublin

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